To learn more about appropriate formatting for web writing, see these selections from the Web Style Guide:
- Text Formatting for Web Documents
- Structuring Your Prose
- Online Style
- Rhetoric and Web Design
Also check out these articles:
- 10 Principles of Effective Web Design
- Principles of Layout and Design (from the Colorado State Writing Program)
- Modern Web Design Style
If you’re planning to write for real web audiences, you might want to check out the new Web Writing Style Guide published by a few of the editors of Writing Spaces. This style guide was the result of a Computers & Writing “collaborative sprint” earlier this year.
Here’s the description of the guide on the site:
While written for undergraduate writing students, Web Writing Style Guide could be useful to anyone wanting to learn how to write for the web. Topics in this lengthy guide include-but are not limited to-
- strategies for effective blogging, tweeting, and wiki writing
- an overview of visual design and photo manipulation
- how to write effective links, page titles, and headings
- basic copyright and fair use principles important for the web
- an introduction to HTML and CSS
- lots of links within the text to additional resources
