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The Web Content Style Guide:
Table of contents

The majority of The Web Content Style Guide is organized in an A-Z format, so it doesn't really have a table of contents. However, included here is a Quick Find index that contains a number of the key entries in the Guide.

Quick find index

Document layout guidelines
layout and design
line length
dating documents
fonts
formats
formatting
graphics within documents
page numbers
paragraphs
pull quotes
sentences
table of contents

Functions and roles
copyeditor
editor
editorial board
information architect
managing editor
moderator
webmaster

Grammar and usage
abbreviations and acronyms
contractions
capitalization
collective nouns
consistency
dates
ellipsis
foreign currencies
italics
language (American English or British?)
lists
measurements
months
numbers
parentheses and punctuation
phone/fax numbers
prepositions to watch
quotations
referencing online sources
sexist language
special treatment of words
spell checker
split infinitives
style guides
that/which
time of day
time zones

Information economy terms
content
content management
data
data management
digital age
digital divide
extranet
information
information economy
information literate
information overload
intellectual capital
Internet
intranet
knowledge
knowledge capital
knowledge management
new economy
publishing

Interaction
chat
discussion board
email mailing list
feedback
moderator
online community
pull technology
reader-generated content
subscription-based publishing
support

Issues of concern
best viewed with
broadband
circular linking
color
page downloads
Flash
fonts
frames
graphics
italics
page counter
PDFs
plagiarism
privacy
underline
spam
splash page

Legal
attribution
copyright
corrections
fact-checking
libel
plagiarism
privacy
Terms of Use statement
trademarks

Marketing and advertising
advertorial
banner ads
branding
email mailing list
email marketing
email newsletter
email signatures
getting linked
hits
offline promotion
search engine registration and optimization
subscription-based publishing
viral marketing

Navigation
classification path navigation
classification
core navigation
document navigation
drop-down navigation
ecommerce/shopping-cart navigation
global navigation
homepage navigation
language/geographic navigation
personalization
progress chart navigation
related navigation
URL navigation

Online reader
information overload
online reader
reader identification
scan reading
server logs
usability

Punctuation
comma
colon
dash
hyphens
possessives
semicolons

Search
keyword
metadata
metatag
search tips
search engine registration and optimization
search layout

Website layout and design
accessibility
classification
feedback
Flash
footer
fonts
forms
frames
graphics
information architect
links
link titles
logo
masthead
metadata
multimedia
navigation design
non-HTML documents
page download
page length
PDF
personalization
printing
screen size
scroll
site map
splash page
streaming
tables

Writing and editing
bylines
calendar of events
collaborative content
commissioning content
content acquisition
corrections
editing content
email writing
fact-checking
headings
online reader
Orwell’s rules
subheads
style guides
summaries
tone
word processors
writing guidelines



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