Developing an in-house style guide can be tough work. In previous lives, I helped start creating one and worked on revising at least two others. So many details, and so little time to devote to the problem …

This article at A List Apart offers a number of great suggestions on how to write a style guide for developing a Web-based interface. What does that have to do with technical communications? You can also apply much of the advice to a document style guide.

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