Re: QUESTION: *writing* style guides for the web

[John Posada <john -at- TDANDW -dot- COM>]

durl...

See if there is something along those lines on this page from my site.

http://www.tdandw.com/web_style_guides.htm



durl wrote:
>
> Hi,
>         Those of you who read me know I'm big on citing Style Guides as my
> authority when discussing the way I approach a documentation project
> with a client.
>         Tomorrow I'm meeting with a client who's *actually budgeted for a tech
> writer* to work on the web sites his company designs, mostly for
> manufacturers. Using the Archives, I checked out some web sites
> purporting to be style guides, and they are, but for design, software,
> "style sheets,"--not *writing*.
>         Anybody know of any style guides, paper or on-line, that address, with
> some authority, *writing* for the Web? I'm looking for something that,
> for example:
>         *       advocates bullets and lists
>         *       um...well, if I knew, I wouldn't be asking!
>         He presumably has designers. I want to demonstrate value-added
> *writer*, since he's clued in. TIA,
>         Mary
>         Will tab and post
>
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