Content Contributor Guidelines
Newfangler aims to provide its audience with quality content that discusses new and progressive technologies. We have established this brief guide to help our authors produce clear, meaningful, and interesting content that fulfils our users’ needs. Our guidelines cover Text, Links, Code, Assessment, Spellings, and Readability.
Check that your article meets the requirements explained in the Copyright Notice page.
- Compile your article (word or .txt format only), along with any images (submitted as separate .png, .gif or .jpeg files no larger that 500 pixels wide) and supporting example files, as well as the personal information described below.
- Please do not:
- Insert unnecessary lines breaks in .txt submissions in an effort to wrap text
- Submit your article in html format
- Forget to submit your personal information (short bio) with your article
- Keep your article truthful, passionate, and professional.
- Deliver real value to readers. Provide relevant links, tips, and original ideas; reference other material where appropriate to substantiate the information in your article.
Text Content
- Articles must be at least 1000 words in length.
- Articles must be submitted in Microsoft Word or plain text format – our CMS allows text only, so HTML submissions are not advisable.
- Avoid using HTML tags to indicate the formatting of text in Microsoft Word or plain text submissions.
- Articles must exemplify a reasonable amount of skill in using the English language.
- Articles must be the original work of the author and give full credit for any passages quoted from other sources.
NOTE: Articles that contain advertising for (including any links to) the author’s business, their website, or clients’ or affiliates’ website(s) will not be published on Newfangler.com.
Links
- Don’t encode links into a Word document. Instead, simply paste the URL immediately before the text from which you’d like it linked.
- Do not include links to your own sites, or the sites of your clients (unless you’re writing a case study) in your article.
- Do not include affiliate links in your article; articles that include these will not be published.
- Include links as appropriate. If you refer to another person's work, a book, an online resource, or anything on which the reader might want more information, include an appropriate link.
Code
- Leave a line break between the text preceding a code block and the code itself.
- Lines of code must be no longer than 75 characters (including spaces).
We will review every article submitted in accordance with these guidelines. Articles will be edited to meet Newfangler’s editorial and content standards.
Criteria for Assessment
When assessing your article for publication, we will consider the following:
- Is the article relevant to Newfangler readers?
- Is the opening attention grabbing?
- Have you used concise English that communicates clearly to readers?
- Have you put yourself in the place of your readers?
- Is the article interesting enough to make users read all the way through?
- Is the main point of the article obvious?
- Is the article well structured, with information categorized under appropriate headings?
- Is the article Web-ready?
- Does the conclusion finish off the article?
- Does the article contain spelling or grammatical errors upon submission?
- Are all links provided in the article accurate and do they work?
Consistent Spellings
The following is a list of words that are commonly used in Newfangler articles, and which have several possible variations of spelling and/or capitalization. This list reflects the spellings we require in Newfangler articles:
- Internet
- website
- Web
- ecommerce
- epublishing
- ezine
- site
- Web page
Make Your Article Web-Readable
Articles should be Web-ready upon submission to Newfangler:
- Be succinct, short, and to the point
- Break content into short, fast-paced paragraphs
- Use sub-headings that help users scan
- Use bulleted lists
- Use hyperlinks
Include recommended formatting in your article (e.g., Bold your subheadings and keywords, format lists into bullets, etc.) to help us edit your submission.