Write for Shipyard

If you would like to get your article published in Shipyard please review the following guidelines prior to submission.

Types of content

We're looking for articles and tutorials targeted at people ranging from beginners to experts who are involved in website development.

Content guidelines

Spelling and Grammar

Please spell check and have an independent person check your work for grammatical errors

Links & Sources

Please include URLs for at least 3 other reference sites that the reader can consult for more information on the topic. If you used any online resources in the process of compiling your article or tutorial please include the URLs. The URLs will be published at the end of the article.

Length

The ideal length is around 1200 words. If you have a piece of work that is substantially longer you may wish to split it and submit as a multi-part series of articles.

Submission guidelines

To submit content for publication on Shipyard please ensure you include the following information with your submission:

• Authors name
• Authors email address
• Authors organisation
• URL to the Authors organisation
• A brief (1-2 line) bio (optional)
• Title of the article
• Short blurb (15-30 words)
• Target audience: beginner, intermediate, expert
• Date the article was produced
• Article content (See note below on formatting)

Please submit articles via email to: shipyard@anchor.com.au

Article format

To ensure that your article is published and presented in the way you envisaged please help us by sending it in a format that we can easily work with.

The preferred format is html structured with headings (h1 through to h6), bulleted lists, and paragraphs.

The Shipyard style sheet will be applied to all articles to set font sizes and colours.

Images

Any required images should be included in gif or jpg format optimised for web usage.

Due to layout constraints of the Shipyard site images must be no wider than 500 pixels.

Alternate formats

At the end of the day we'd love to get your content, so if you can't work with the format requirements above send it through to us in any form and we'll see what we can do.

Preferred alternate formats are: plain text, pdf, rtf.

Please try and avoid proprietary formats if possible as we may not have the required programs to read them.

Copyright

Please ensure that you are the legal copyright holder for any submitted works.