[Sigia-l] Web Guideline/Style Guide creation

[Chapman, Charles - ITSD A&D]

Some "style guides" that I found recently when trying to do something
similar included:

http://www.att.com/style/
http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/style/
http://www.fsu.edu/~webguide/
http://www.indiana.edu/~iuweb/
http://www.cl.uh.edu/launch/style/StyleGuide.html

Hope these help.

__________________________________ 
Charles Chapman
Manager, Intranet Services
Babson College
http://www.babson.edu

 


-----Original Message-----
From: prady [mailto:prai at prady.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 3:10 PM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Web Guideline/Style Guide creation


Hi there,

After couple of years of efforts in 'UI design' and 'Usability' with my
current employers, we have come to a point to build some kind of
'Guidelines' for maintaining usability and consistancy. The interface we
build is for 'web/browser based' application. I wish to seek opinion on
the following matters -

1. Is there any recomendation regarding 'Style and Structure' for
'Guidelines' for web based applications 2. Is there anything in the
world which can tell us, what to comment and what not to? What makes a
'guideline' and what is simply an 'personal opinion'? 3. Is there any
tool, which could help creating and managing those. My mentor forwarded
me one pointer - www.guiguide.com Has anybody ever heard about it? 4. Is
the word 'Guideline' makes sence in this regard. I have heard people
arguing this against 'web style guide', what's the difference???

I am looking for anything which could help me in this regard - papers,
examples of 'guidelines/style guides', personal opinions or any
pointers. I have seen 'Apple' and 'Sun' gudelines, so please abstrain
from sending them to me again.

Reagrds,

Pradyot Rai
(this is a cross-posting from CHI-WEB to this forum, you can reply me
directly and I can post the summary later, if you prefer.)


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