Style Guides and Manuals

Writing on the Web
Jakob Nielsen's guide to more useable web pages.

The Yale Web Style Guide
This is required reading for anyone who wants to write in electronic spaces. A print version is now available from Yale University Press. --ejc 3/2/99

Elements of Style
William Strunk's 1918 version of the guide now referred to as Strunk and White is available online from the Project Bartleby at Columbia University. --ejc 1/12/99

Style Guides
From the HTML Writers Guild, an annotated list of style guides appropriate to a variety of hypertexts.  --ejc 8/13/98

Web Wonk: Tips for Writers and Designers
From David Siegel. A site to look into once you have gotten somewhat familiar with web design conventions.  Not really for beginners. --ejc 8/13/98

HTML Tutorials
by John Gilson. Scroll down through what he's selling and use his tutorials for writing your own HTML code for effects you can't get your editor to do. His instructions are thorough and clear.  --ejc 2/3/99