A great resource for us budding designers. Thank you very much.

Good for old fart amateur hacks with little hope of excellence as well.

Excellent. Another fine production from silverorange (we've come to expect it now I'm afraid to say). I'd change one thing though. The acronym for XHTML is defined in the document as 'XML Hypertext Markup Language', and while this is sort of true, I believe the true definition should be 'Extensible Hypertext Markup Language' (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/). Yes, I'm being picky, but it's Friday and I need something to do other than the work in front of me.

Keep up the great work. Hope the sun's shining in your beautiful city.

There are a few problems with the style guide. It links to this particular post, but the link is wrong. It links to:

http://labs.silverorange.com/archives/2003/august/styleguide

which gives a 404, as the page seems to be at:

http://labs.silverorange.com/archives/2003/august/genericwebstyle

Also, the page does not validate, as the info div is labelled with an id, but it appears more than once in the document, which an id can't do. (Try to validate it with the W3C HTML Validator.)

Other than that, it's a great resource! ;)

Fixed and fixed, Pete. Thanks!

There are a few typographical errors that need to be fixed:

1) In §1.2, subtopic "Use quotes for all attributes", second paragraph (after the example), reads: "The 'nowrap' attributed for ..." s/b "The 'nowrap' attribute"

2) also in §1.2, subtopic "Do not use depreciated tags" s/b "Do not use deprecated tags". This correction should also be made in the first sentence of the paragraph that follows, viz.: "Some tags that ... have been depreciated ...." s/b "Some tags that ... have been deprecated ...."

3) In §2.2, "Special Text-Formatting Classes", first paragraph, second sentence reads: "However, in certain instanced ...." s/b "However, in certain instances ...."

4) In §3.1, "Site visitors are your most important priority, first paragraph, first sentence reads: "This may seem obvious ... but it's vital important ...." s/b "This may seem obvious ... but it's vitally important ...."

5) In §3.2, "Do not specify fonts", third sentence reads: "If you want to add meaning to you text ...." s/b "If you want to add meaning to your text ...."

I have other suggestions, but these were the most egregious errors.

Other than that, the document has proven quite useful: I'm also developing a set of guidelines, and this was an excellent starting-point.

Kurtis

Thanks for pointing out those errors Kurtis. The document has been updated with all of these fixed.

Umm ... still one hanging around, listed as item 5 above. It still reads:

"If you want to add meaning to you text ..."

The last bit should read: "to your text".

Thanks again Kurtis. Fixed.

§3.1, "Site Visitors are Your Most Important Priority", fifth sentence reads "The site must me consistent.", but should read "The site must be consistent."

It's great to see such good content

... becoming part of the Creative Commons.