Web Design Manuals Blog

After a period of radio silence this blog is going to resume activity. Firstly, I’ve been invited by Janus Boye to present my thoughts about Web Design Manuals at the cmf2006 conference next week in Århus. I’m also invited to host a roundtable discussion about the conflict between the traditional top-down managed corporate identity and […]

I’d love to hear your comments to this proposal for a structure of the book.

Introduction - who is it for, why bother etc
About web design manuals

What are they?
Who are they for?
How make one?

Elements and structure of a web page
Documentation of the design

Site structure
Page structure
Colours
Fonts
Links
Navigation
Logo use
Images use
Media use
Standards compliancy

Making the web design manual

Use of examples
Guidelines, rules, […]

I’ve decided to publish my forthcoming book under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. This means that you are not going to be able to buy it anywhere. When it’s finished you can just download it if you want it.
Why? Three reasons.

Many people have helped me, directly or indirectly, form the thoughts behind the book […]

When researching for this book I come across many interesting sites. I first bookmark them to my del.icio.us account and then select the best to the link section on this blog (they are at the sidebar to the right). If you want to check all my research bookmark, just look under the “webdesignmanuals” tag on […]

A web design manual is made to enforce a company’s visual identity on the web. It defines acceptable colours and fonts for use on the web pages. It describes accept-able use of logos and other visual hallmarks. It may even offer ready-to-use tem-plates for web pages.
The web design manual is sometimes made as part of […]

I’ve been wanting to write a book about web design manuals for years. Since November 2002 according to my first notes. This week I red Seth Godin’s posting Advice for authors and Shel Israel’s Are you using a blog to promote your book?. Reading those postings kicked me to set up this blog so that […]