How to add an article to Open Source Design

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Posts on Open Source Design.net appear on the Articles page here.

To submit an article using the github interface, here is a step by step guide:

  • In the _posts folder, create a ’new file'.

  • Give your file a name that starts with the date in this format: 2020-11-01 (year month day) then a title using ‘-’ inbetween words e.g.“2015-04-25-welcome-to-open-source-design”. Don’t forget the .md at the end to indicate that it will be a mardown file.

  • Make sure you post/article includes essential information at the top of the file e.g. below:

layout: post
title: Use your artistic skills to help open source via opensource.com
date: 2020-08-13
categories: design open source 
author: Jeff Macharyas
  • Check the alignment and formatting of images, text etc. in your article/post. You may need to use span css styles and workarounds to have your article display how you want it to.

  • Once finished, you can submit a pull request of your article/post. This will then be reviewed by two open source design community members and comments, changes may be requested before it is published on the Articles page here.

If another community member who has posted an article using git commands from their local repo instanace can submit a step by step, that would be great :)

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