Creating a clip

It's easy to create a clip with curate.us!  You can do this a couple of ways, the easiest way is to take the URL of the article you want to clip and put it in the box near the footer on any page on curate.us and create a link.  

You can also create a clip using our curate.us bookmarklet.  Here is how:

1. Install the curate.us bookmarklet
2. Go to the site you want to clip
3. Click "Clip with curate.us" in your browser's toolbar
4. Adjust the positioning, clip size, and link behavior from the curate.us page. 

• Drag the red box up or down to position the section of the webpage that you want to clip.
• Drag the red arrows on the lower right-hand side of the clip to size it the way you want.
• Click either: Float Left, Center, or Float Right to set the orientation of your clip.Tick "Links in new window?" if you want the clip to open in a new window when clicked.

Creating Quotes

Creating formatted quotes with curate.us is easy. Follow these steps, and you'll have an embeddable quote for your blog, email, or website.

1. Make sure you have the curate.us bookmarklet installed on your browser (or accelerator for IE8).
2. Go to a website you want to quote.
3. Left-click (hold and drag) and highlight the text you want to quote.
4. Make sure the text is still highlighted, and click the "Clip with curate.us" bookmarklet (IE8 users can right-click to access your curate.us accelerator).
5.  Adjust the positioning, quote width, font size. and link behavior from the curate.us page.

• Click either: Float Left, Center, or Float Right to set the orientation of your quote.
• Select the width you would like for your embedded quote (n.b., this is the percentage of the page space that will be taken up by your quote).
• Select the font size of your quote.
• Tick "Links in new window?" if you want the quoted webpage to open in a new window when clicked.