Contributor's guide to TopXML

Why write for us?

TopXML prides on itself being a community website, where we value any contribution an author wants to make to TopXML.

To show appreciation for writing for TopXML, we'd like to publish your biography and a promotional paragraph regarding your company/site or even a cause (subject to inspection), including a graphic. None of these are required, but its a way to show appreciation for the effort you have put in.

Along with this, you will also receive a TopXML T-shirt!

This experience is a stepping stone for anyone looking to further their career as a columnist or author because you'll potentially be getting exposure to hundreds of thousands of people and many of these are from publishers.

How do I get the ball rolling?

Submit a paragraph of the article idea via email to Trace Wilson. Your idea needs to be related to any XML subject, which could include how to's in XSLT, the DOM, XHTML, Biztalk, programming, web services, how to integrate with eCommerce development, etc.

The article

The article needs to be written in a Word 97/2000 document or HTML. Don't worry about formatting, we will take care of that.

Graphics should not be wider than 500 pixels, in a gif or JPG format. If your article has code, please comment it - this is the part that people will mainly focus on for a technical article to get a complete understanding of your ideas.

The length of the article is your choice, we appreciate long and short articles. Even if you only want to explain a specific technique, this is enough for an article.

Submission

Once you article is ready, email it to us. We will format and review it, then forward it back to you for your approval/comments.

Payment

Currently we are not able to pay for article submissions. As mentioned, to show our appreciation to your contribution to the TopXML community, you will receive hopefully loads of recognition/promotion from the appreciated readers, as well as a great TopXML T-shirt.

How else can I be involved with TopXML?

Besides writing articles, we also allow people to express their ideas in:

Subwebs/Products

A Subweb is a part of TopXML, which is XML related, that belongs to the Subweb owner. If you have an idea for a product, we'll host this too for you. Please see the subweb/products section for more details.

Downloads

If you have code that is useful, please submit this for the Downloads section in a zip file, along with a readme.txt and a description. For more information, please see the downloads page.