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Styleguide WIP

Feel free to add or suggest changes if you feel strongly about anything!

Author setup

  • Do set your author profile pic, bio and website.
  • The X and Facebook links are (sadly) hard coded into Ghost -- suggest we don't use/promote either. I would love to change these to Bluesky and Mastodon and am looking into it, if youre able to help do shout.

Article checklist

  • Make sure it has a featured image (set using link above the title)
  • Preferably a photograph, ideally your own content
  • Landscape format
  • It will probably be cropped in unpredictable ways so don't use anything with stuff around the edge that has to be there
  • This will be shown as the preview on social media so important!
  • Set the Excerpt - top right button to open menu. This should be a 2-3 sentence mysterious pracis that we will use to plug it on social media
  • Consider ending in a question for blog commenters
  • Flow into Ghost when ready but do not publish -- this will be managed by Kim

Content

  • Use subheadings not bullets to structure things (bullet environment can go weird on mobile)
  • Use headings in order for accessibilty - i.e. h2 then h3
  • Do check for SPAG before uploading :)
  • Spell out acronyms the first time you use them
  • Sprinkle with more images if you have them
  • Linking things is good!

Article ideas

  • Do a community spotlight
  • Book review
  • Tell the story of something you made
  • Write a way to make a website