IBM Style Guide is no longer available online

[Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>]

Hi Smitha - 

This is IBM's internal style guide, which has been used by IBM technical writers for many years. For a short time (a couple of years?) IBM made it publicly available on their web site but it was withdrawn around late 2006. 

A later copy was posted briefly on the user-centred design area of ibm.com, probably by a well-meaning person in the UCD group. I assume that it came to the attention of senior legal or TW people within IBM, because it was quickly taken down. 

It's a good style guide, but there's nothing in there that's especially applicable to web applications. I strongly recommend the following publications: 

Read Me First: A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, 
By Sun Technical Publications (and edited stylishly by Techwr-l's own Janice Gelb) 

Web application design handbook: best practices for web-based software , 
By Susan L. Fowler, Victor R. Stanwick 

Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works 
By Ginny Redish 

Good luck. 

Stuart 

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At our organization we are looking towards creating a common user experience 
for web applications. We would like to adopt industry best practices and in 
my research I have across references to *IBM Style guide.* 

*But, online I am not able to find the IBM style guide and if any links 
point to IBM's designers front page. 

In this context I have come across few posts discussing about the IBM style 
guide, and wondered if anyone can please guide me to the correct link or 
post the document to my mail. * 
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