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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2002 at 8:16 PM | 2 commentsAnother resource I found through IA Slash: Web Copy Style - however, I must point out that you’ll find the suggestions may differ from your own conventions. Provenance : Unknown clearly states, “Conventions commonly observed when writing and editing web copy ….”
For example, they list website as one word, yet many write it as two words. Consistency is the key. Today, someone wrote to me asking, “Which should I be using? E-Payment, E-payment, e-payment, or epayment?”
My reply:
Strictly speaking, E-payment would be correct because E is shortened. Like email, epayment will probably become commonplace and get made into one word or e-payment.
That’s not all…
The best thing to do is pick one and stick with it. Personally, I don’t care for E in such words. I would choose either e-payment or epayment. It depends on the company’s writing style.
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2 comments
Uh oh. I’ve been turned into a “they”!
A few of the conventions in that style guide were hard to decide on, because there really is no standard; words like “website”, “homepage” and “voicemail” seem to be written as two words as often as one. Sometimes, you just gotta take your pick. Fortunately, there’s no such thing as the “right” convention….
[...] In 2000, I wrote an article about Internet and tech terms for Webreference and followed up with others. I revisited the capitalization of Internet, email vs. e-mail, and e-words. Reading WebMarketCentral Blog’s entry (including this one that’s mentioned) motivated me to visit the topic again. [...]
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