Author guidelines

We're always on the lookout for new talent and ideas. Becoming an ADC contributor gives you a platform to share your ideas and knowledge with the world while making a name for yourself as an expert in your field.

Our ideal author has real technical competence and a knack for explaining things clearly. We're happy to work with first-time authors, and encourage proposals on virtually any topic that helps our developer community build better websites, apps, and user experiences using Adobe tools and technologies. However, we generally don't want yet another article on a topic that's already well covered.

Got a great idea you want to share with your fellow developers? Here are your options for sharing:

• ADC tutorial or sample app: We publish select tutorials, articles, and sample applications that fit into our overall content strategy to enable beginning and experienced developers to make the most out of our tools and technologies. If you'd like to contribute, please write a short abstract, detailing the topic you'd like to write about, why you'd like to write about it, and how the community might benefit from your contribution. Be sure to include a rough outline and send it to proposals@adobe.com.

  Note: For more details about writing for the ADC, download our author assets: adc_author.zip (ZIP, 600 Kb).

• Adobe Cookbooks or CSS Advisor post: These options enable you to share code and post solutions to common coding problems. Adobe Cookbooks and CSS Advisor posts are community monitored and you don't have to submit a proposal—just start posting:
  • Adobe Cookbooks
  • CSS Advisor

  Note: Be sure to refer the following guidelines for more information on using and contributing to these community-driven sites: Community Guidelines, Editorial Guidelines [for details on writing posts], Adobe Cookbooks FAQ, and Introducing Adobe Cookbooks 2.0.

• Inspire article: The Inspire Magazine contains original content geared toward informing, enlightening, and inspiring web and RIA designers and developers. To submit an article proposal, please contact the Inspire editor, Julie Campagna.
• Community Help: Contribute tips, movies, or code snippets with easy-to-use templates. Contributions are rated and may be featured on product Help and Support pages, Developer Connection, Design Center, and Forums. Learn more
  

Contributing to the Adobe Developer Connection has several benefits.

Respected platform

The ADC gives you a forum to share your ideas and knowledge with the world while making a name for yourself as an expert in your field.

Extended reach

Your content will not only be published in the Adobe Developer Connection; we may also promote new content through newsletters, social media announcements, and other channels.

Furthermore, the ADC supports the sharing that the Creative Commons license offers and so we use the Creative Commons to sublicense the content we receive. We offer three different, non-commercial types of sublicenses and provide you the option of choosing one for us to use with your submitted content:

• Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)
• Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)
• Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)

For content that includes examples of code, we also offer licensing that allows for the reuse of the examples of code in products, commercial or not, under a combined Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License and Adobe Creative Commons Plus License.

Opportunity to give back

In addition to sharing your expertise with the developer community, your contribution will also help others through the ADC Write & Give Program. This program acknowledges the writing efforts of our community authors by making a donation to a charity for each author's published article. The donations are given in a lump sum at the end of each fiscal quarter. Authors choose their charity from a list of five preselected charities:

• Benetech: Creates new technology solutions that serve humanity and empower people to improve their lives.
• Nature Conservancy: Works around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.
• Mercy Corp: Alleviates suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities.
• Care: Fights global poverty by serving individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world.
• Feeding America: Is the largest charitable hunger-relief organization in the United States.