There are a several navigation bars to help you find your way around the site. Here’s how they work:

Red (horizontal) navigation bar

At the top of every screen on Helium, you’ll find the red navigation bar.

This is your main tool for moving throughout the website. Basically, it’s your North Star. On it you’ll find links to:

• Marketplace: This will bring you directly to the Helium Marketplace, where you can write articles to titles that publishers are looking to buy. Easy money if you’ve got the right stuff!
• Journalism Awards: If you have what it takes to research topics and issues, lend an objective voice and write compelling articles, then you are a citizen journalist. Try your luck at one or all of our citizen journalism contests with our non-profit partners.
• Writing Contests: Weekly and other timed contests aimed at countless topics and channels. Your work is rated the best, or not quite the best, by your peers.
• My Helium: It’s all about you. Once you become a member, you can access your “About Me” page and all your account-related information here. See the “My Helium” section of Help.
• Write: We like options. Which is why we offer so many ways for you to write your articles on Helium. Go here to pick your preferred path to publishing!
• Rate: Here’s where you become managing editor by rating articles. Remember that in order to rate articles, you must be logged in and have written an article.

Left-hand (vertical) navigation bar

Depending where you are on the site you’ll find:

HIGHLIGHTS navigation bar

The topmost left-hand navigation bar is HIGHLIGHTS, which links to some of Helium’s specialized pages, programs and features.

Here’s a quick tour:

• Causes & Charities: Helium partners with a variety of nonprofit, governmental and charity organizations to provide debate subjects and article titles for Helium writers. For more information, read our Causes & Charities page on the website.
• Helium Debates: Does video game violence cause it in real life? Should smoking be allowed in public places? Who would win in a fight: Superman or Batman? Whatever the subject, Helium brings civility back to the Internet. Pick your side, write a compelling article and compete with others for the best argument.
• Helium Quick Start Guide: Helium gathers information from people in all walks of life. This guide helps new members settle in and make the most of what Helium has to offer.
• Pulitzer Center: The Pulitzer Center wants to hear your voice on some of the most pressing issues of the day. You can write original articles on issues raised by the Pulitzer Center in the Global Issues/Citizen Voices contests. These featured titles are based on Pulitzer Center reporting projects, which cover global crisis issues that are misreported, underreported or not reported on at all. The winning essay is showcased on the Pulitzer Center’s website and on Helium.
• Writing Contests: Fun and interesting writing contests at Helium inspire writers to greater heights and increased earnings. Check out the latest contests and compete to earn even more!
• Writers’ Resources: Helium’s writing community is now over 100,000 strong! Along the way, we continually work to enhance our craft, and with a community that large, the need for resources is paramount. Our Writers’ Resources pages provide primers and how-to’s on everything from Helium article types to writing for SEO to linking.

CHANNELS navigation bar

Think family tree. Our knowledge tree is a big one.

Use the main CHANNELS bar to navigate to content areas of the site.

As you navigate, your choices break down into subchannel selections. For example, if you begin at Health & Fitness, you may then choose to navigate to Exercise. From there, you could focus on Pilates & Yoga or Exercise Tips.

ABOUT Helium navigation bar

Find out about our business right here.

• Home: Click this button to jump back to Helium’s home page.
• What is Helium?: What’s Helium about in a nutshell? This is the place to find out.
• Contact Us: Directions, maps, addresses and emails. We’re not hiding from you — the many ways to find us are on this page.
• Press: Extra, extra, read all about us. You’ll find Helium in the headlines here.
• Link to Helium: Buttons and icons for fancy linking from your website to your Helium “About Me” page.
• Team Helium: We’re smart and good-looking. At Team Helium, find bios and photos of Helium’s bigwigs.
• Publishers: If you’re a publisher looking to join our revolution in generating content, click here.
• Partners: Interested in teaming with Helium to spread the word on your cause or charity? Here’s where to start.

Navigating Helium articles

Helium is unique because we have (and want!) multiple articles written to each title. More articles mean more information on a topic and different points of view. More articles also mean more competition for the top spot in a title group, which leads to better articles. In short, the more the merrier! To aid you in your journey through our bounty of articles, here’s a map to Helium article navigation.

The rank icon

The icon below indicates the rank of an article, as rated by Helium members. Next to the rank icon you’ll find arrows that you can use to navigate from one article to the next up and down through the ranks.

Top Article tab

Click on the Top Article tab to view the #1-rated article for the title group.

If you are viewing a debate title, there will be a Top Article tab available for each side of the debate (i.e., Yes vs. No, Pro vs. Con, Darth Vader vs. Darth Maul, etc.) Click on the appropriate debate side to view the #1-rated article for that side of the debate.

View All tab

Click on the View All tab to view all the articles in a title group.

For debate articles the number of articles displayed in the View All tab is the total number of articles from both sides of the debate.

Multi-page articles

Longer articles have multiple pages. To navigate from one page of an article to another, use the page icons or the arrows at the bottom of the article. The page you are currently on will be highlighted.