Hi Lorrie, When I read your email, it seemed to me you were referring to what I've read in web design books called 'deliverables'. A concept I think inherited from print and graphic design. For instance I recently bought a copy of Elliot Jay Stocks "Sexy Web Design" from Sitepoint ( http://www.sitepoint.com/books/ ) and last chapter speaks of this. However, beyond being called a style guide, I don't discern a "common set of rules" such that there exists software to assist you explicitly with a style guide. Another Sitepoint book from a few years back by Shirley Kaiser "Deliver First Class Web Sites" ( http://www.sitepoint.com/books/checklists1/?SID=3598de07047196325426cba641ee236c ) in the third chapter refers to a technique called "content inventory" which whilst different to a style guide, could class as a handover document. She refers to an excellent article by Jeffrey Veen on the subject which might assist - http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000040.php Finally in somewhat the same vein as Franks answer and using a similar technique, a presentation from a Natalie Downe of Clearleft in England on Maintainable CSS. At the end of the presentation she appears to create a HTML document that allows any future front end developer to quickly understand the styles and patterns in a technical sense. So whilst useful for a developer, probably of little consequence to a website owner. See the presentation here - http://natbat.net/ In the end, presuming I was in the ball park when I assumed you meant deliverables, as best as I can tell there is only techniques that work for you, rather than a standard such that the W3C would endorse. Hope some of this is helpful.
John Unsworth >>> List, >>> >>> I am a web designer as a hobby and have run into a situation where >>> I am not sure where to search. Does a standard exist for the >>> creation of web site creation documentation? By this I mean >>> documentation that would/might be turned over to the end user: >>> >>> 1. to allow the end user to mange the site himself >>> 2. to document the project and for future reference >>> >>> Having created a few sites I have been trying on my own to >>> determine what information should be documented and in what format >>> and by what specs. I hope this makes sense. If they do exist, >>> would someone point me to them and some examples as well as any >>> software, open source if possible, that exists. If not, are there >>> any industry general practices that I can read? >>> >>> One last question, if such standard exist are they working with >>> the W3C community and where might that info be, please? >>> >>> Lorrie ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
