About Tabs & Pages
A LibGuide can consist of a single page with one or more content boxes or multiple pages with content boxes on them.
Pages are accessed via the tab bar which appears on every page. See the box at right to learn how to add and edit pages and tabs.
Suggested Layout Formats
- Tabs organized by format (Books, Articles, Primary Sources, etc.)
- Ex: Philosophy
- Guide organized by table of contents/index box (top left-hand column)
- Ex: English & American Literature
- See Creating an Index Box for directions on creating a box that will link users down the page.
Tab Names
When creating a Subject guide, please use the following tab names only. These have been selected because they are brief and consistent with what is currently being used and are concise enough to not make the tabs overwhelming. When creating course guides or other special topic guides, please use the list below first before creating new terms. Additions or edits to these terms are not set in stone and should be used as a starting point for further discussion and revision based on future testing.
- Books
- Journals
- Articles
- Databases
- Bibliographies
- Data Sets
- Primary Sources
- Other Resources
- Interlibrary Loan
- Reference Sources
- Images
- Websites
If you have any further suggestions, please feel free to add them in the comments section below.
Adding & Editing Tabs
Creating new tabs/pages:
- Click on Add/Edit Pages on the yellow command bar.
- Select Add New Page.
- Enter a title for the page.
- Keep titles short.
- Leave as Top Level unless you want to make the page a sub-tab of another page. (See Adding Sub-Tabs below.)
- Click Create this Page.
Copying a Page
To copy an entire page from another guide:
- Click on Add/Edit Pages on the yellow command bar
- Select Copy Page from Another Guide.
- Select the guide and page you want to copy.
- Ask permission before copying a page from another Libguide author.
Reordering tabs/pages:
- To change the order of tabs/pages, click on Add/Edit Pages on the yellow command bar.
- Select Reorder Pages.
- Drag and drop the tab/page titles until they are in the correct order.
- Click on Update Tab Order.
Adding Sub-Tabs
Sub-tabs are pages that appear in a drop-down menu from a main tab. Sub-tabs are less readily visible to the user and should be used sparingly.
Creating sub-tabs:
- Click on Add/Edit Pages on the yellow command bar at the top of the page.
- Select Add New Page.
- Enter a name for the sub-tab.
- Click on the Add as a Top Level drop-down menu and change it, selecting the main tab under which you want the sub-tab to appear.
- Click Create this Page.
Note: Sub-tabs are always listed in alphabetical order and cannot be re-ordered by dragging and dropping. If you must change the order you can do this by including numbers in the sub-tab names (i.e. "1. Encyclopedias", "2. Dictionaries", etc.). This is not an ideal fix, so please use this sparingly. Better alternatives might be to use a index/table of contents format for your guide or consider creating an additional guide for more specific content.
Two Columns or Three?
The default format for a LibGuides page is three columns.
This format can be changed to eliminate the the left column or right column (We ask that you do not remove the profile box in the right column). To remove the left column click on Add/Edit Pages on the yellow command bar.
- Select Toggle/Resize Columns
- Change the column widths at the bottom from Left - 230; Center - 520; Right - 209 (the default) to Left - 0; Center - 758; Right - 209.
- Click on Adjust Widths
