I'm going to start writing up an in-house Style guide for TWG. I need contributions
Here are some things I want to put in it
It's "game master" not "gamemaster" or "Game Master," however, since it's from a specific game, it is still "Dungeon Master"
GM rather than gm
RPG is fine, as is "roleplaying game" or "roleplaying" but let's not use "role playing"
the usage we'll use is FPS, first-person shooter, RTS, real time strategy, side-scroller MMOG or MMORPG.
Internet is capitalized, as is Web when referring to the same.
I'm not sure if we want to do email or e-mail. Word recognizes both, though e-mail was previously "more correct." I think we should pick one and use it.
Italicize specific product names, but not brands. so it's the Dungeons and Dragons
Player's Handbook but it's GURPS, or Savage Worlds.
Abbreviations are fine and should be capitalized. Player's Handbook, despite being only two words, is abbreviated PHB. Make sure your abbreviated term is quite obvious, at least to someone with a basic familiarity with the product/genre.
There are a limited number of HTML tags that submitters should be familiar with and I would like to see used.
<P> starts each paragraph
<I>italicized text goes here</I>
<B>bold text goes here</B>
Unless you already know how to do an <IMG> tag AND to format the text (usually using a table) so that it looks at least as good as the UXB blogs (not amazing, just at least that good), then just paste a URL to any picture you want to use in the place where it goes. I'll work out the rest.
Feel free to use more advanced code like tables and ordered and unordered lists. If you do, please make sure your code is correct.
Remember that HTML (such as in the articles) uses angle brackets: <> while the forum uses square brackets: []
Feel free to include links to web material relevant to your discussion. If you don't know how to make a link in HTML, just paste the URL, I'll fix it. If you DO know how to make a link, please include TARGET="_blank" inside the <A> tag.
Please break up really huge paragraphs. Gramatically, it may be more accurate to use a single paragraph, but it makes it easier for users to read if the paragraphs are short, and we want to hold them.
Remember, with these guidelines, it's not that another way of doing it is WRONG, it's just that it is much more professional to be consistant with presentation.
I'm flexible on most of these rules, so long as we can find a standard and stick with it.
Please post additional terms and rules we should be using. I'm especially looking at you editor types, like Ookla, Stacer, and Fell for ideas on this. I hope 42 has some really good ideas too.
