Interesting Internet editorial style guide

Sam

You could do a lot worse than Uncle Netword's site, in particular the section on writing web text at http://uncle-netword.com/articles/writeweb1.html

The introduction to the site says "There were, at last count, about a zillion sites on the Net dealing with web design and technology. This isn’t one of them. This site is about webtext—copy structured and written for online publication. Nothing is more essential to the success of a Website or intranet, yet no web-development topic gets less attention."

This is an excellent resource for everything to do with copywriting for the web with really useful links out to other good content and articles. There are links to resources giving editorial guidelines e.g. http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/pages/editorial_style.html

Hope this helps.

On 16:36:42 20 March 2001 Sam wrote:
>Follow this link...
>
>http://www.internetcontent.net/resources.asp
>
>... for a good, brief outline of recommended Internet
>editorial guidelines.
>
>Internetcontent.net as a site is a good one for keeping
>abreast of matters in the content business.
>
>Has anyone found (or written) any other good web editorial
>guidelines???
>
>Sam

That should be "its", not "it's" next to "spit it out...". There's always a risk writing anything about writing...

Sam

On 17:57:49 21 March 2001 Sam wrote:
>Thanks for that, Claire. Looks an excellent resource.
>
>Your quote from their site about "Nothing is more
>essential to the success of a Website or intranet, yet no
>web-development topic gets less attention" couldn't
>be more true.
>
>It's surprising that the industry as a whole has taken so
>long to get around to this point and still remains pretty
>sketchy on it. Why do you think that is - lack of time,
>willing or common sense?
>
>I feel there's an inherent deterioration in people's basic
>ability to writ adn spel correktly... ;) Arguably,
>education systems are placing less and less stress on it;
>the dominance of TV and the arrival of e-mail (with it's
>"spit it out and hit 'Send'" approach) doesn't
>help.
>
>e-consultancy will shortly be publishing an 'interactive
>white paper' entitled 'Content that works'. It's written
>by yours truly and is a joint undertaking with my company,
>netdefinition (www.netdefinition.com). Will be available
>as a PDF download from here - and contains a section
>specifically on writing for the web. Keep an eye out for
>it.
>
>Are you a scribing type yourself???
>
>Sam
>
>On 17:45:58 21 March 2001 claire wrote:
>>Sam
>>
>>You could do a lot worse than Uncle Netword's site, in
>>particular the section on writing web text at
>>http://uncle-netword.com/articles/writeweb1.html
>>
>>The introduction to the site says "There were, at
>>last count, about a zillion sites on the Net dealing
>with
>>web design and technology. This isn’t one of
>them.
>>This site is about webtext—copy structured and
>>written for online publication. Nothing is more
>essential
>>to the success of a Website or intranet, yet no
>>web-development topic gets less attention."
>>
>>This is an excellent resource for everything to do
>with
>>copywriting for the web with really useful links out
>to
>>other good content and articles. There are links to
>>resources giving editorial guidelines e.g.
>>http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/pages/editorial_s-
>tyle-
>>.html
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>
>>On 16:36:42 20 March 2001 Sam wrote:
>>>Follow this link...
>>>
>>>http://www.internetcontent.net/resources.asp
>>>
>>>... for a good, brief outline of recommended
>Internet
>>>editorial guidelines.
>>>
>>>Internetcontent.net as a site is a good one for
>>keeping
>>>abreast of matters in the content business.
>>>
>>>Has anyone found (or written) any other good web
>>editorial
>>>guidelines???
>>>
>>>Sam