ADVICE
So You Are Still Working on Your New Medium Publication
Maybe You Are Tech Challenged And That’s Perfectly Okay
Page Tabs! Navigation! Submission Guidelines! Woo Hoo! These are the advanced topics of a serious kick-ass editor. Let’s dig in!
First you may wish to refresh your memory with where we left off in the last episode.
Ready Teddy?
Here’s a screenshot.
NOW, we need navigation.
There are three columns here. Tab name, tab type and contents. Tab name is what the name will appear as on your home page. Contents IS the page. I make them match.
That middle column is the secret sauce. That’s a pop down. Now you can play with that. I use feature page, because I want my tabs to be based on tags, and I want them chronologically displayed. So play with that.
REMEMBER TO SAVE.
You can go back and forth to this page and the home page to see what it looks like.
So get that.
You can have 7 tabs. I combined my titles and tags by using the symbol “|” because since it’s a completely vertical bar as opposed to this “/” — it takes up less space on the home page, so you can squeeze more in there.
Note that none of these is the HOW TO SUBMIT tab. Nope, you can actually have an EIGHTH tab that is a URL to an off site — or in my case — on site — page.
Lookie here:
See that bottom bit? SUBMIT. So I created a How to Submit document. It’s just a regular document that I published to my publication. Once it was published, I grabbed the URL and just plopped it right there in that middle column. AND SAVED the page.
Okay? Try it out. If you get stuck or have other questions, let me know. I think with this last instruction, you’ve got pretty much everything you need to know to get a super beautiful sexy publication going!
Good luck and HAVE FUN!
Or not. But don’t blame me. You were the one who wanted to start a publication!
Created especially for Laurie Livingston Nave and CJ Kowalski
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Susan Brearley is a brilliant strategist and writer/editor. She’s the owner/operator of the MuddyUm Writer’s Self Help Clinic. And the Captain and Editor in Chief of the Good Ship MuddyUm.
She’s been writing comedy for about 2 weeks.