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The Outdoor Idiots.com Submission Guide

You there! Yes, you! No, not the person sitting next to you! Or the person behind you! YOU! Pay attention! Outdoor Idiots.com needs you!

How to Submit and Item

It's as simple as sending us an email. Your item can be contained in an attached document if you wish. Try not to get too fancy with any attached document types, and there's a good chance we will be able to open anything you send us.

Don't worry too much about formatting and layout. We will do that, so that it fits in with the style of our site.

We reserve the right to adjust your item, either before publication or after it has been placed in the library. The following are examples of why we might do this:

To correct spelling mistakes or improve grammar
To re-categorise the item, e.g. what you think of as a top-tip we might feel is better presented as an article, or vice-versa
To amend any "factual" data, e.g. if we receive comments suggesting that an article contains incorrect or outdated information. We hope to maintain the standards of any article over time. You may even want to tell us to amend an article that you submitted yourself.
If we like your item enough to publish it, but we feel it requires significant changes, we will consult with you first.

Guidelines

Here are some specific guidelines, depending on the type of item you wish to submit:

Articles

If possible, perform a spell-check on it when you have finished. Just because Outdoor Idiots.com can't do spelling and grammar, doesn't give you an excuse not to! Try to make the article useful, as well as interesting - e.g, can you provide addresses of relevant Internet sites for further reading? If your article contains "factual" data, do your best to check up on the facts. If you are quoting data you have not personally verified, make this clear. Any photographs or images which supplement your article, should be of as high a quality as possible. An article does not have to be serious - we try to have fun at Outdoor Idiots.com.

Top-Tips

A top tip should consist of just a sentence or two. However, you can expand or explain the tip as much as you like, and we will include this along with your tip. Only provide images if they really help get the idea across.

Photographs

Please give us a caption as well as your photograph. This can be a description, a bit of background, a "humorous" (the reader will decide!) caption or whatever you feel is appropriate. If you have a particular reason to want several photographs grouped together to be considered as one item, then that is fine.

Thank you for taking the time to read the above. Now for that email address. We don't want to display it as an email address that you can click on, because these days there are naughty programs which scan web sites for email addresses and then spam them silly. Please type the following into your email software:

Will your item be published?

Currently we are unsure about the volume and/or quality of submissions we are likely to receive. Feel free to submit as many items as you wish (in separate emails, please!). However, please do not re-submit the same item. We will collect all the items that are candidates for publication, and publish them as and when we find the time. You should receive an automatic response to confirm that your submission has arrived in our in-box. If not, then please contact us via the details given in the contact page.

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