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Resources for Contributors to The Gardens Gazette website
- Use the guideline and tool resources below to improve your submissions for publication.
- Upload using the Submission form when you have your content ready for publication.
- An established workflow will take your submission through a process of reviews, edits, refinements and publication under guidance of a website editor.
- Tutorials are available here.
Photos
Use Submission form to upload photos with articles.
Provide captions, dates, attribution, and background story.
See Tutorials for sending photos from a cellphone.
Provide captions, dates, attribution, and background story.
See Tutorials for sending photos from a cellphone.
Writer Style Guide Resources
Writer Style Guide Resources
- CreateSpace Free Publishing Resources
- The Elements of Style ( S&W, Strunk and White)
- Download cheatsheet (docx)
- Wikipedia - read discussion
- Wikisource - read online
- Goodreads - read reviews
- Project Gutenberg - download eBook
- American Style Guides Online
- Wikipedia: Manual of Style
- The Tameri Guide for Writers - Based on the Associated Press Stylebook, which is the primary style guide for reporters and editors at daily newspapers and many periodicals.
- National Geographic Style Manual - An alphabetically arranged guide to preferred National Geographic Society style and usage.
- Quickie Writing Tips
- Grammar and Style Aids
- Grammarly -
- Hemingway Editor - Highlights segments of your writing that’s hard to read, so you can simplify it.
- Better Blog Posts
- Readability - Passive voice, big words, etc.
Web Style Guide Resources
Web Style Guide Resources
- Web Accessibility
- Color Contrast Checker | ColorZilla
- Designing for Color Blindness
- Best Practice
- Spectrum - Instantly test your web page with different types of color vision deficiency.
- Inclusive Design: Web accessibility for all.
- Color Contrast Checker | ColorZilla
- Image style guide for popular social media
- styleguides.io
- Designing Style Guidelines For Brands And Websites
- A practical guide to web typography | Bibliography
Workflow
Workflow
Use Submission form to upload documents.
Submissions go through a review and edit process before being published.
See Workflow for details.
Use Submission form to upload documents.
Submissions go through a review and edit process before being published.
See Workflow for details.
Tools for Contributors and Editors
Here you will find free and fremium tools for making and managing online content.
Listicles
Listicles
Compare Documents
Compare Documents
- Draftable Online Compare (Word, Powerpoint, PDF)
- DiffNow Online (Word wrap option doesn't work in free version.)
Online Editors
Online Editors
- Calmly Writer - write without distractions
- PDFescape - Free PDF Editor & Form Filler Online
- Sejda - On-line PDF Editor
- JotForm PDF Editor | Review
- A lightweight online character count tool
- More
Browse and compare apps
Browse and compare apps
Desktop publishing
Desktop publishing
- Scribus | Wiki
- LibreOffice
- LyX
- Calligra | Wikipedia
- Plain text editor (useful for removing hidden formatting)
Online publishing
Online publishing
Stock photos and images
Stock photos and images
- Everypixel - Stock image search engine - free and paid
- Many Site Links to Free and Freemium Stock Photos (6/8/18 submitted by Debra Peterson)
- Many Site Links to Stock Photos You Can Use For Free
- Find images that you can use and remix, across several open archives
- LibreStock (search the best 47 free stock photo websites in one place)
- Stocksnap
- Unsplash | Best of 2017
- Pexels
- Life of Pix
- Fancy Crave
- Magdeleine
- albumarium (Downloads without file extensions, Mac-centric)
- Wikipedia list
- Famous artworks
- NOAA photo library
- Astronomy and space
- Old Maps at LOC
- Reverse image search for
Graphics and image editing
Graphics and image editing
- Add text to JPG images
- Pinetools Merge Images Online
- Canva for Graphic Layouts & Infographics
- Piktochart for Infographics, Posters, Presentations (YouTube tutorials)
- WhataGraph for Google Analytics
- PicResize
- Inkscape desktop
- PicFont add text and graphics to images
- Pablo add text and graphics to images
- Stencil add text and graphics to images
- LiveGap Charts
- Favicon from pics | Create a favicon or select one
- Join images into one file online [C][A] [B] [D]
- Three Freemium Graphic Design Tools/Services
RelayThat | Easil | Snappa | Reviews - Phototopea Online Image Editor like Photoshop
- Shutterstock image editor
- Squoosh reduce image file size online
-
Screencasts
Screencasts
- Comparison of screencasting software
- Screencastify A lightweight screen recorder for Chrome.
- Screencast-O-matic (Free if recording is under 15 minutes.) Tutorials
- VLC media player for recording (free; runs on most O.S.s; and supports most formats)
- Learn about screencasts
Video editing and presentation
Video editing and presentation
Mockups and prototypes
Mockups and prototypes
File Conversion
File Conversion
- Animated GIFs and PNGs plus other image editing
- Convert png and jpg to ico for favicons
- Convert JPEGs to PDF document
- Convert PNG to PDF document
- Convert PDF to PNG document
- Convert PDF to JPEG document online
- Convert Web page to PDF document - 2 page limit without subscription
- Free online file converter
- PDF Converter - multiple file formats including Word docx
- Word to PDF - one per hour
- Convert your document to DOCX format (other file formats are available)
- Combine multiple files into one zip file
- Convert formatted text to plain text online with copy/paste
- Convert webpage to PDF
Forms Online
Distribution with File Sharing
Distribution with File Sharing
- Compare file sharing software
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- OneDrive at Microsoft
- MediaFire
- Hightail
- Wikisend (easy file upload; login account optional; up to 90-day storage; share unique file url; access password optional)
Distribution with Mashups
Distribution with Mashups
- IFTTT — Allows you to create ‘recipes’ that automate repeated actions and tasks. Weebly
- Zapier — Allows you to automate two tasks (similar to IFTTT) Ex. Every time you tweet, it gets posted in your Facebook timeline.
- Buffer — Lets you schedule and share your post on 4 platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Google+). Note: You can only schedule 10 posts at a time for free. $10/mo applies after that.
- TweetJukebox — Recycle your posts for Twitter. Note: You get 2 jukeboxes that can store up to 300 tweets on a free account.
It Should Be Easy
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
- Search the Commons
- You can use CC-licensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is attribution.
- How to find free music, images, and video you can use or remix in your own creative works.
- Content categorized by CC licenses
YOUTUBE
YOUTUBE
- Log into your Google Account
- Go to YouTube.com
- Click your icon in upper right > click Creator Studio
- You should see on the left: CREATOR STUDIO https://www.youtube.com/dashboard
- You will have access to Dashboard, Video Manager, Live Streaming, Community, Channel, Analytics
- Click-toggle the "hamburger" symbol in the upper left corner for more options.
- YouTube Audio Library
Suggest other resources for bloggers and contributors.