Showcase your Expertise to the World!

Shotaz.com strives to be at the forefront of new ideas, emerging challenges, and cutting-edge technology on the Web. We are always looking to partner with writers to bring these messages to the web community.

If you’ve got an idea for an article or a book we’d love to hear from you!

Our articles reach over 40 thousand unique users per month. Our books are another fresh idea from user suggestions. There’s no better way to get your name out there, build your freelance business, help your fellow developer, and become recognized in the web community than by writing for us. In an article or a book.

Contribute Articles to Shotaz.com

Publishing an article on Shotaz.com.com exposes you to a global audience of interested and passionate web users.

Shotaz.com pays cash for every book it publishes, and we reward you for submitting great content. The more traffic that your article receives, the better you’ll get paid for it. Assuming your article is accepted and meets our quality guidelines, here’s how it works:

As soon as you publish an article, we allow you to include an ad banner or affiliate code.
The more traffic you get to your article the more you earn.

All articles are accompanied by a full bio, which can contain links to your web site, providing valuable traffic and backlinks.

We’re always interested in fresh content that’s unique and original. If you have an idea for an article, download and read the Shotaz.com Submission Guidelines below, which includes information on:

• submission requirements
• what we’re looking for
• assignment of rights
• payment terms
• how to submit your work

Of course, if you have any questions about contributing content to Shotaz.com, email the editor (contribute [at] shotaz.com).

Article ideas and submissions should be sent to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it [at] shotaz.com

Book Submissions

Shotaz.com publishes practical, solution-focused products everyone. We welcome proposals from potential Shotaz.com authors and, whether you are an experienced writer or not, our supportive editing team will help you to ensure that your book is of the highest quality.

We publish books on topics that are likely to interest our audience and that:

• Advocate best practice techniques
• Lead the reader through practical examples
• Provide working code for the reader’s web site
• Make learning easy and fun

If you have a great idea for a book that you think we’d like, send your proposal (including, if possible, an outline, a description of your expertise, and why you think the book will sell) or sample content to us by emailing it to books [at] shotaz.com . You’ll get a personal response and feedback on your proposal from one of our friendly editing team.

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Shotaz.com Authoring Style Guide 2009

The Shotaz.com network aims to provide its audience with quality content that is relevant and factual. We have established this style guide to help our authors produce fresh and interesting content that fulfils our users’ needs, while branding yourself as expert in your field.

About Shotaz.com

Shotaz.com is pre-eminent publisher of enjoyable, informative, and exciting content. Shotaz.com users are passionate about technology and enjoy a controversial read.
This audience:

• demands practical information, clearly explained

• wants to be able to implement your teachings in their projects immediately

• seeks current, timely information

• expects to be addressed in a friendly tone

• wants to be respected, not “spoken down to”

Part 1 of this guide outlines what is required of content submissions to the site.

Part 2 of the document provides important information about the terms governing the acceptance and publication of your article.

Part 3 outlines house styles and formatting standards for the submission of such elements as images, links, code snippets and so on. - 2 -

Part 1: Submission Requirements

Voluntary submissions to Shotaz.com.com must:

• be at least 500 words in length

• avoid rehashing content that has already been covered on the site

• be submitted in Microsoft Word or HTML

• exemplify a reasonable amount of skill with communication in the English language or the language of the article.

• be the original work of the author, and give full credit for any passages quoted from other sources

• not contain link/s or reference/s to the authors own business(es), unless the article is a case study

• be submitted to submit [at] Shotaz.com along with an author bio of no more than 35 words (including link/s to your site/s) and an author headshot

Submitting to Shotaz.com

Once we receive your submission, Shotaz.com will review it and get back to you within 7 days. If we haven't contacted you within 7 days, you can assume that we are not interested in the article. If you decide within that 7 day timeframe that you no longer wish to publish your article with Shotaz.com, simply email submit[at]Shotaz.com to let us know.

Part 2: Acceptance, Publication and Rights

If your article is accepted for publication on the site; In exchange for placing your ads on the article we request that you give Shotaz.com unlimited, exclusive rights to the article. Shotaz.com requires complete exclusivity over the article for 90 days from its date of publication, after which time you may publish the article on your own site. Any other reproductions of the article, in any form, in part or whole, must be approved by Shotaz.com in writing before the reproduction is published. If you DO NOT wish to give us exclusive rights for 90 days then the article cannot contain any advertising by you.

Upon the acceptance of your article, we'll send you an agreement that specifies these terms, which you must sign and return to us before we are able to publish your work.

Shotaz.com is unable to publish content over which it does not hold unlimited, exclusive rights with an advert, without such rights your article can still be published but without any ad from you.

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Part 3: Shotaz.com House Styles

Links

• Include links as appropriate. If you refer to another person's work, a book, an online resource, or any topic on which the reader might want more information, include an appropriate link.

• Don’t encode links into a Word document. Instead, simply paste the URL immediately before the text from which you’d like it linked.

• Do not include links to your own sites, or the sites of your clients (unless you’re writing a case study) in your article – articles that include these will be returned unread.

• Do not include affiliate links in your article – UNLESS you are giving use unlimited exclusive rights for 90 days

Code

• Leave a line break between the text preceding a code block, and the code itself.

• Lines of code must be no longer than 75 characters (including spaces).

• Ideally, format code in a different font and identify items within article text that should be formatted as code.

Images

• Images associated with your article should be submitted as separate .png files.

• Images should be no larger than 500 pixels wide. If you submit images that are larger than 500 pixels in width, they will be returned to you for resizing.

Downloadable Files

• You are encouraged to include files for download by readers of your article. Files should exemplify the technique you have described, and should be fully functional, enabling ease of re-use by readers.

• Downloadable files must be submitted in a separate .zip archive. Include in the archive all the data that is required to make the example fully functional.

Your zip file will be available for download in the downloads section of shotaz.com and a link to this file will be placed at the bottom of the file.

Consistent Spellings

The following is a list of words that are commonly used in Shotaz.com articles, and which have several possible variations of spelling and/or capitalization. This list reflects the spellings we require in Shotaz.com articles:

• ecommerce

• email

• epublishing

• ezine

• the Internet

• site

• Shotaz

• Shotaz.com

· Taut

· True Authors

• the Web

• web site, web page, webmaster

• username