This guide is a collection of resources about creating LibGuides that are creative and dynamic.
Explore and enjoy!
Free Use Images
Free Photo Editing
- Pixlr
A free online photo editing software that is great for resizing photos, adding effects, and making content for Libguides.
- Glimpse
An open source image editor. It's goal is to experiment with new ideas and expand the use of free software.
Recommended by Clayton Hayes
- BeFunky
Advertised as photo editing and graphic design made for everyone. It's an all-in-one online Creative Platform has everything you'll need to edit photos, create graphic designs, and make photo collages.
Recommended by Ida Martinez
Full screen for best presentation!
This Prezi highlights best practices, tips, and tricks for LibGuide creation. Want to know how to embed a YouTube video/Prezi/PowerPoint? Or how to make gallery boxes that aren't just single picture slides? It's all here, plus more things to make your LibGuides fun, creative, and dynamic!
How to Prezi
The PowerPoint shows how to get started making a Prezi, and how to convert PowerPoints into Prezis. Why choose a Prezi? They're interactive and visually engaging, but otherwise function very similar to PowerPoint so it's user's choice!
How to Embed a Prezi
Embedding a Prezi is a little more complicated than most embedding practices! Unfortunately. But there is a guide here, and these screenshots should help you out!
Click the 3 dots by your Prezi, and select "Share View Link"
If there is no share link, you just click "Create New Link"
Enter who your target audience is and then "Create Link"
Take the link you just created and paste it into the embed link on the next slide, and from there you're ready to embed your Prezi!
<iframe width="550" height="400" src="your_view_link/embed" webkitallowfullscreen="1" mozallowfullscreen="1" allowfullscreen="1"></iframe>
SpringShare Resources
- Building a Guide (Basics)
A video about the very basics of LibGuide building. - Making Your LibGuide Pop
A video about using images and different box types to make your guide pop. - Features to Use in LibGuides
Video that shows you how to reuse content, add keywords, and some best practices for image use.
- Best Practices & Accessibility
Video about designing your site to be more visually appealing, user-friendly, and readable.
A note about accessibility:
When adding descriptions to links, books, and other assets: hiding the description behind a hover over option breaks the accessibility of screen readers. If you decide to use the hover over option to keep a guide looking less cluttered, make sure you are adding comprehensive alt text to your images to describe what users will be clicking on.
Below are some resources for checking how accessible your LibGuides are!
- Siteimprove Accessibility CheckerFree browser plugin that highlights detected accessibility issues right on the page.
- Tota11y bookmarklet for ChromeFree browser plugin for Chrome that helps you visualize how your site performs with assistive technologies.