Yahoo Style Guide and Web Content Resources
June 28, 2010
Yahoo has released a style guide, The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and
Creating Content for the Digital World, in direct competition with the AP Styleguide. It will be in stores (yes, in digital & physical formats) on July 6th. In reviewing the Yahoo guide, it’s clear that it is more progressive, modern, and mindful of the internet technologies and web terms and their usage, for example website instead of Web site and email instead of e-mail. I definitely agree with Yahoo more than AP, and I never thought I’d write that sentence!
The website for the book is a great web content resource in itself, including:
- Shaping your text for online reading (totally useful in briefly teaching library staff to write web content)
- How to write strong headlines/titles
- Search Engine Optimization basics (no snake oil here, just the real basics that apply to the major search engines)
- The Yahoo Word List (tech and communication specific words and their correct usage)
June 29th, 2010 at 12:52 am
Thanks for this informative post Sarah. It’s quite helpful.
June 29th, 2010 at 8:19 am
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June 29th, 2010 at 8:42 am
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July 2nd, 2010 at 6:29 am
I see the Kindle version is available but no ePub version at B&N for my Nook as of July 2.
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