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Mistakes I've made so that you don't have to
- Making a copy of a guide, page, or box that contains assets will duplicate every asset - rich text boxes are OK though
- The system tells me who made these things and I will notice, and then badger you about it
- Changing your template after you have created your guide will do two alarming things...
- Put your profile box on EVERY page, in the centre column, which makes your face uncomfortably large
- Any content already in the guide may get put into hidden columns, don't worry, it didn't disappear completely
- Cutting and pasting directly from Word or a webpage will bring it a whole lot of unnecessary HTML and in-line styling. Always use the plain text paste filter provided by the system, or better yet, run it through notepad.
- This is often why things don't format as expected, and it can also increase load times for users
- I will also badger you about this if I notice it
- Libguides has a tendency to introduce paragraph tags around non-breaking spaces in odd places if you flip back and forth between the WYSIWIG and the HTML edit screen in a rich text item. Not much you can do about this except try to stay on top of them if you notice things are getting too spaced out.
