Books
Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
Third edition of the classic text
Writing for the Web (Chambers Desktop Guides)
Easy-reading summary, yet covers much of what you need to know. A great place to start.
The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing and Creating Content for the Web
Good wide-ranging guide
SEO Help: 20 Steps to Get Your Website to Google’s #1 Page
Clear and straight-forward guide with easy to follow steps to get started with search optimisation
Online
www.useit.com/papers/webwriting
www.alistapart.com/topics/content
Eyetracking:
Style guides:
- www.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Style_guide
- www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide
- www.bbctraining.com/pdfs/newsstyleguide.pdf
Search engine optimisation
- www.adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
- articleannouncer.com/tools/keyword.html
- keyworddensity.com
Accessibility
For more, go to www.kift.com/writingforonline
This resource was created by Simon Williams who runs the Writing for the Web and Build Your Own Website workshops for NUJ Training Wales. Simon’s website
