spelling conventions

[Bero, Stephen]

IMHO: Just as countries, cities, bodies of water are capitalized the Internet and the World Wide Web as "locations" in cyberspace should be capitalized.

I favor writing compound nouns as one word where feasible, especially where only two component words are involved, e.g., desktop, toolbar, workstation, and hence Website and homepage.

You may find the following book useful, if not necessarily authoritative.
Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age, from the editors of Wired and edited by Constance Hale (HardWired 1996, ISBN 1-888869-01-1).

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From: 	Kevin W. Bishop[SMTP:bishopk at rpi.edu]
Reply To: 	bishopk at rpi.edu
Sent: 	Wednesday, September 30, 1998 11:34 AM
To: 	Multiple recipients of list
Subject: 	[WEB4LIB] spelling conventions


This is something of a silly question, but what is the convention?

Internet / internet
Web / web
Webpage / webpage // Web page / web page 
Website / website // Web site / web site

I'm consistently inconsistent with the capitalization and spacing of these
words and would like to know if there is a standard style for the sake of
developing "how-to" [w]eb()pages about [w]eb()page development.  

-kb

(I think it should be "Internet" and "Web", but as for the others ... ??)


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