• Grammar - Grammar is one of the most important aspects of a guide. Poor grammar makes you look unintelligent and childish; resulting in others not taking you or your guide seriously.
  
• Pictures - Pictures greatly help the quality of a guide. Guides that are only text are a pain to read and are often confusing. Include pictures for every step you do.
  
• Detail - Be as descriptive as possible. You want people to understand what you are trying to tell them.
  

• What is your guide about?
  
• What is it used for?
  

1. Press the Print Screen key on your keyboard (sometimes labeled SysRq).
   
2. Open MS Paint. Open the Run... box (from Start Menu, or press Windows+R and type pbrush or mspaint).
   
3. Paste your picture in to Paint (paste or ctrl+v)
   
4. Save the picture.
   

1. Press the ALT and Print Screen key on your keyboard (sometimes labeled SysRq).
   
2. Open MS Paint. Open the Run... box (from Start Menu, or press Windows+R and type pbrush or mspaint).
   
3. Paste your picture in to Paint (paste or ctrl+v)
   
4. Save the picture.
   

1. Go to http://imageshack.us.
   
2. Click browse... and locate the picture you wish to upload.
   
3. Click upload.
   

• Make important details bold, italicized, or underlined. This is done by wrapping them in text tags:
  
  PHP Code:

  TEXT TEXT TEXT 

  
  
• Make your step titles in easy to see colors. This helps by showing people where they are in the guide.
  Colors to use: White, Red, Yellow, Lime Green
  Colors not to use: Black, Blue, Purple, Dark Green
  

• By following this information, you should be able to construct an organized guide, providing your information is correct, hoping to increase the overall intellectual level of the guides.
  
• Categories, which are smaller individual sections of the specific guide.
  
• Sub categories, which would just be smaller portions of information which pertain to the topic of the category.
  
• Pictures, these are great visuals which make learning a much more fun and more simplistic experience.
  
• Spacing, this will allow readers to accurately separate sections of the guide step-by-step.
  
• Background information, this information will provide a little bit to th reader about how you knowledge is voluminous on the specific subject.
  
• Outside information, this just gives the reader a bit more information to help them conceptualize the overall topic more accurately.
  
• No spelling errors and grammatical errors, this will make the guide more legible and easier to comprehend which is an over plus.
  
• Provide examples, this will give them an idea of how something is supposed to be done.
  
• Introduction, a small portion of the guide which should tell readers what the guides main points are about and what you will discuss.
  

Quote:Introduction-(A little bit about how you gained this knowledge and the main points which you will put forth.)

Buying a Hummer Category #1) This is just the area where you will put the main topic which is above.
Where to Buy a Hummer-(Sub Category #1) This is where you can list where to buy the Hummers.

Pictures of the Hummer-(Pictures) Post pictures of the sticks you wrote of before.

(09-26-2010, 12:07 AM)Infinity Wrote: I still use TinyPic, and photobucked has a limit in addition to not allowing you to upload anything until you register. TinyPic is just a habit now for me in uploading pictures Otherwise I use MegaUpload.

(09-26-2010, 12:21 AM)Infinity Wrote: Yeah, I hate those Captchas. It's a very nice tutorial btw. I find it nice how you write a tutorial on how to write a good tutorial haha I'm going to assume that making organized lists in a guide is part of the "Organization" area? You have layed out this tutorial very nicely with the

bbcode, in addition to color for the main titles. 9/10. You should add the word List somewhere in the organization area. Then this is a really good guide. Nothing major, and you did really well

(09-26-2010, 02:02 AM)FibSaSk Wrote: Good guide. Colors/bolds/underlines also make the reading more comfortable, but don`t overdo it.