The purpose of a Guide
Use the Guide content type to provide guidance or instructions on how to do something.
This content type allows you to break up large amounts of text into sections with headings. This is useful for providing instructions in a clear and accessible format.
You should write the guidance or instructions in a logical order so users can find what they are looking for easily.
Do not use the Guide content type to create a list of Frequently Asked Questions.
Read more about choosing a content type for your web content.
Appearance
A Guide page is made up of sections of text with headings. A green in-page navigation box shows on the right-hand side of the page so that users can navigate to the heading they are looking for. Typecase will create this navigation bar automatically when you add sections to your Guide.
Examples of Guide
The page you are currently reading is a Guide.
Other examples include:
- Accessing your University email and calendar
- Applying for an undergraduate course
- Sending and receiving mail as a member of staff
Accessibility
You must make sure your content is accessible.
As a public sector body, we're legally required to make the content on our website as accessible as possible. The government checks our content to make sure it complies with the internationally recognised guidelines from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Find out more about accessibility or contact beta-content@bath.ac.uk if you have any questions.
Creating content
There are no subtypes for Guides. You should make it clear in the Title and Summary who the guidance is relevant to and what it will help a user to do.
Core components
Your page must have a User need, Title, Summary, Navigation and Owning organisation or group.
Read more about core components.
You can choose to add a Pinned item image to the page.
Labels
You can add Labels to your page if you're an Editor or Admin, but you don’t need to add Labels and should only use them to:
- pin content to a Topic page
- create a filtered list of related pages
Don't use Labels for any other reason. Labels don't function like search keywords or tags on a blog. If you use Labels incorrectly, your content could appear in the wrong place on the website.
Find out more about using Labels in Typecase.
Top of page fixed-position components
You can choose to add the following to your Guide:
Bottom of page components
You can choose to add the following components to the bottom of the page: