The online style guides I created played a key role in training content editors across the organization.

My first task as Online Content Manager for ATLA was to create processes and procedures for the day to day management of the Association’s main web site in a situation where the responsibilities for creation of content and the coding of pages was spread across the organization’s thirteen departments.

In addition to establishing procedures and defining roles for individuals in the departments and within the Online Team, I also created an Online Style Guide which described the general rules to which any content on the site was required to conform. To make the style guide and additional resources available to the Content Production Coordinators who were actually coding the pages for each department, I created a small intranet-type site on one of ATLA’s internal development servers. [Read more...]