In this guide, I'm going to show you everything you would need to know to make a guide on Steam.

First you have to choose if you want your guide to be associated to a game or not.
If it's associated to a specific game, people in that games community can find it more easily.
If it's not associated to a specific game, it's much harder to find for random steam users and most likely will only be found when someone goes onto your steam profile.
On your profile, if you display the guide it will show the game logo that you associated the guide to on the bottom, if you didn't associate it to a game, it will show the Steam logo.
Let's see how to make a guide for each category:
To associate your guide to a specific game, go to that game community, go to guides and click the create guide button:

To not associate your guide to any game, use this link:
https://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/editguide/?appid=753

When you have found a game you want to create a guide for, you will need to add basic information.
Starting with the title:
Here you add the title for the guide.

Adding a picture:
Here you add your picture to represent your guide, you can only use .JPG or .PNG format.
It's size should be 195x195 pixels and thumbnails have to be less than 2 MB.

Adding a Language:
Here you select the language that you use in the guide, only one can be used per guide.

Adding a Description (Optional):
Here you can add a Description for your guide, it will show up when somebody scrolls past your guide and at the top of the guide under the title.
This is optional and not necessary.

For example:

Marking a category:
Here you mark what your guide would fall under, you can use more than one option.

Rights and ownership of the guide:
Here you check-mark that you made the guide and that it will be on your profile.

After this you are ready to save and continue to the next part.

When you complete the basic information, you are now forced to add tables of content.

Click on add and then edit, this will bring you into the content section.
Here you make a title and content for your guide.

On the Right side you can add Images/screenshots/videos.
Images are anything you want to upload that are exclusive to the guide (allowed format: )
Screenshots and Videos are from your profile that you have uploaded before hand and are both visible in the guide and your profile.
When you uploaded an image and click it, it will ask how you want it located on your guide and then show a line of text, to see how it actually looks in the guide, save the edits and click preview guide.

You can also add images form the guide contents tab.

Adding a link to something out of Steam, will just show the link.
But if you paste a link to something within Steam like another guide, it will make a little preview of that item in the guide.
For example at the end of all my guides I have a link to all my guides in one overview.

At the bottom of Guide contents you can add Contributors, these are friends that can edit the guide whenever they want, but they need to have permission of the guide owner.
When the guide is published, at the bottom is the comment section, here there are 2 section.
1- is public and everyone can see what is said
2- is contributors only and are private.

When done, make sure to save and then you can go back to guide contents to make another section or you can go to preview guide to have a look at how the guide will look for visitors.
When you made multiple content tabs, you can drag the order around as you want.
When you feel done with the whole guide, click preview guide and click publish.
The automatic Steam system will check for anything that might break the Steam TOS (terms of service) and will look at any links to see if they are possibly malicious.

Everything can be edited, even after the guide is already made public.

People that find your guide can upvote or downvote the guide.
Once 25 people have upvoted or downvoted your guide, it will get a star rating that is visible on the top right and mini-profile for the guide.

You can also see how many people have seen your guide in total so far and how many have Favorited the guide.
These numbers are public, you can't see who did what (Upvote/downvote/favorite), unless someone of your friend group Favorited it.

People can also add awards to your guide, which are publicly visible to everyone.
The awards cost Steam points that are earned by spending money on games and DLC and by earning awards.
After 14 days, you earn 1/3 of the points that that award costed.
For a full breakdown of every award and its point cost, use this link:
https://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3526827912

Only people who own the game that you made a guide for, can upvote/downvote, favorite it and give awards to it.

https://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3498442654