How to make a great Instructable

Step 10 Share (post links / email friends / add collaborators)

In edit mode, click the "share" tab. There are three tabs you'll find.

share on - On this tab you will have easy options to post your Instructable to Facebook, Digg or Twitter. It also gives you embed code so you can use our flash embed tool to easily add your Instructable to your blog or website. There is also a direct link to download a pdf version of your Instructable.

email to friends - Access your Gmail/Aol/Hotmail/Yahoo address book to email a link to your Instructable to your friends.

collaborate - Use this tab to enable collaboration and add other Instructables members to collaborate on your Instructable. The user who starts the Instructable is the "lead author" and is the only person who can add other collaborators or publish the Instructable. Collaborators can edit text, add images and steps, and re-arrange steps. They can also remove images and delete steps.

Comments

[WayfinderAli]

I can't see the embed code. All I see are options to share on facebook, digg, twitter etc. What happened to the embed code? They seem to have gotten rid of that option. Please help! I would love to post my instructables to my blog!!

[domcev]

were are your pictures it would really help if you posted them comment me back when you are done

[SFHandyman]

Can I add a specific collaborator? I want to work on something with one specific user but I don't want to open the Instructable for general collaboration. I see that as the owner it lets me pick and choose what goes in the Instructable but I'd rather it didn't show up as a collaboration and mislead people into thinking I'm opening it up to anyone. It looks like there is a work around. I could create a throw away group. Make it moderated. Add my project and make it a collaboration for that group. Only allow my friend to join as a member. Then when we were finished, I'd just delete the group. But that seems like such a kluge. I'd also have this group in my groups that people might want to check out. I couldn't find anywhere that said specifically that I could delete a group either. I know if it isn't available I could request it from staff. What am I missing? I've searched forums and instructables and postings. I can't find a detailed faq on how the site works, just bits and pieces scattered all over and some overview Instructables that don't go into detail. Thanks for your help.

[killajones]

i need help creating a new instructable, every time i hit save and add first step it just says "this is required" eventhough i already did it. to the title and overview parts.

[ewilhelm]

You can add single people as collaborators. Just try it out.

[SFHandyman]

Thanks, I did. Easy. Just didn't want to screw up my first instructable, it turned out well and I didn't want to mess it up by experimenting on it.