[WEB4LIB] spelling conventions

[Peggy Shaugnessy]

If Merriam-Webster is an acceptable authority, try
looking up the single word "site" at:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm

I would take this to mean the correct term would
be either Web site or web site.  (I got this as
a reference question last week)

Peggy Shaughnessy
Library Assistant III / Webmaster
Fort Collins Public Library
peggysh at libsys.ci.fort-collins.co.us

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Kevin W. Bishop wrote:

> 
> 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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