Web Developer's Style Guides
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Style: editorial directions to be followed in spelling and
punctuation and capitalization and typographical display
Style sheet: a sheet summarizing the editorial conventions to be
followed in preparing text for publication
There are many different Web sites that have some form of writing on them.
There are news sites, e-zines, universities, religious sites, sports sites,
and many others. Many of them have several different subject matters
located on the same Web site.
Writing requires that certain conventions, or styles, be used in order to
maintain some sort of order. As writers from different backgrounds
contribute to online writing sites, the necessity for that order becomes
more apparent.
There are style guides for writing the code on the page; others for citing
sources used in the article; others to help with common grammar/spelling
mistakes; and still others to help with special topics.
So how do you keep it all straight? You want your visitors to remember you
by your witty prose and great style, knot beecuz u cant spel. Well,
... not to fear ... the WDVL is here! We have gathered together a selection
below that should help you in "setting the style" for your Web site.
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The WDVL Style Guide
Our style guide deals
not only with the issues of user presentation, but also
maintainability for the developers.
Speling Errer's in You're Sights
Writing on the web shows a remarkable deficit of literacy.
WebTV Style Guide
Contains design tips learned when creating our pages for television.
Follow these key points, and your pages can look good on WebTV,
Netscape Navigator, or Microsoft Explorer.
Sun's Guide to Web Style
This is a cookbook for helping people create better web pages. The
guidelines presented here represent the opinions and preferences of a
small group of people within Sun who have created some web pages, and
have looked at many more. We've drawn from our own observations,
opinions and judgements about what makes web pages better or worse, as
well as extrapolating from the existing body of usability and user
interface design literature.
Style Guide for Online Hypertext.
This guide is designed to help you create a WWW hypertext database
that effectively communicates your knowledge to the reader. It has
been prepared in the light of comments by readers, and many demands by
providers of online documentation. Some of the points made may be
influenced by personal preference, and some may be common sense, but a
collection of points has been demanded, and so here it is.
Yale C/AIM WWW Style Manual.
Users of multimedia computers documents don't just look at
information, they interact with it in novel ways that have no
precedents in paper document design. Excellence in interface design--
designing how the user is able to access the information in your
document--is crucial to the successful design of World Wide Web (WWW)
pages and systems. Documents designed for the computer screen may
contain and organize many forms of interactive media, including text,
numbers, still illustrations or photographs, animations,
visualizations of spatial or numeric information, and digital
audiovisual material.
An HTML Style Sheet
It is important to consider the content of your web site but it is
equally important to attend to the way that information is presented.
Collected here are sensible features from many popular web sites, as
well as links to examples of these features.
A Basic HTML Style Guide
is something I wrote way back in 1994 while at NASA/GSFC; it's perhaps
more of historical interest than anything else, now.
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