The Yahoo! Style Guide: From Grass Roots to Print and Digital Versions

The seeds of "The Yahoo! Style Guide" were planted 15 years ago, when writers and programmers at Yahoo!, faced with a lack of industry guidance, began assembling a set of guidelines for Web writing. Their first in-house reference grew in size and company importance as content creators added to it through the years.

Polished and expanded for its public debut, "The Yahoo! Style Guide" covers the basics of grammar and punctuation plus a multitude of topics with a Web-specific focus. Yahoo! editors discuss effective writing and editing for an online audience, techniques for streamlining copy, basic Web codes, Internet law, search engine optimization, and more. Before-and-after examples of how to clean up problem copy abound.

This companion website not only features content excerpted from the book but also offers more help and resources from Yahoo! editors.

"The Yahoo! Style Guide" is available in print and digital versions, such as those for iPad and Kindle. Read reviews, comments, and endorsements from academic and industry experts.


Meet the editors

"The Yahoo! Style Guide" was influenced by many past and present Yahoo! writers, editors, and content creators, and shaped by a core team of editors. Find out a bit about the core team.



Table of contents for the guide

The chapters of "The Yahoo! Style Guide" take you from the most basic Web issues to more technical ones but may be read in any order. Some chapters you'll want to read from start to finish; others you'll leaf through as a reference. Get a sense of the guide from its table of contents.



Events for the guide

Ask questions in person and get in-depth examples to explain SEO, what affects a website's voice, and more. Learn firsthand how the guide's writing principles can improve the usability of your website. See whether the editors are at an event in a town near you.



Corrections

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