Yahoo’s Style Guide For The Web Lands Next Week In Print, iPad And Kindle Form

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Jun 28, 2010

Yahoo wants to help people write effectively for the Web by publishing a custom style guide, as was announced last April.

The stylebook, entitled “The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World”, will be released on July 6 by St. Martin’s Griffin, and will be available in dead tree form in a variety of stores, but also – naturally – in digital form for Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle.

The company’s core team of editors, led by Chris Barr, senior editorial director of Yahoo, says it has revisited its in-house style guide and divided the guide into six sections covering, for one, the basics of grammar and punctuation.

In addition, Yahoo aims to cover some basics in the guide “even seasoned print editors and writers making the move to online writing struggle with”, citing examples like creating accessible websites, minimizing legal risk, writing for mobile devices, and improving a site’s rank in search results.

The company targets professional journalists, bloggers, technical writers, editors but also web developers, designers, small- and medium-size businesses, advertising and PR agencies and … newspapers folks.

List price for the book is $21.99, but you can get it online at $14.84.

Now give me a second while I go check if everything is alright with regards to my Capitalization for this post.

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http://www.aqute.com James MacAonghus

With all the free advice that the three search engines give out about SEO, it seems a bit odd to charge a fairly high price for a style guide.
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It's a book.
http://intensedebate.com/people/davebarnes Dave Barnes

No mention of Camel Case in the Capitalization section. And, shouldn't it be spelt Capitalisation?
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I check this out thanks
jimmy

For a style guide? that'll be outdated in 6 months. Well if they written last year and printed just this year, it's most likely it'll be outdated by the time it hits the stores.
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Writing a website is somewhat like writing a newpaper or a tabliod. It is something which either catches the person attention or not. Therefore it is hard for me to image that someone can start writing good websites by just reading a book. Creating a great website is usually a team effort which requires editors, technical people, and marketing people to able to attract people attention!
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Cynthia Maller

BTW, it's spelled "Yahoo!", not 'Yahoo". ;-)
http://intensedebate.com/profiles/tcrobinw Robin Wauters

Heck no. That was cool in the late nineties.
The Dude

Yup, that's the company's name, with the bang on the end. There's really nothing more or less to it–it's not subjective or anything like that–it is what it is.
The Dude

Yup, that's the company's name, with the bang on the end. There's really nothing more or less to it–it's not subjective or anything like that–it is what it is.
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