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Links
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Eg, etc, and i.e. Quotes and Speech Marks. Singular, Plural, and Contractions. Never use the phrase ‘here’, ‘click here’, or similar for a link. Always use a descriptive phrase:. You may find our title case tool. Helpful when writing sub-headings. You should avoid either of these:. To find our title case tool. Our title case tool can be found here.
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Apostrophes
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Eg, etc, and i.e. Quotes and Speech Marks. Singular, Plural, and Contractions. Apostrophes are all about ownership. If you want to illustrate this, work out who the owner is, then add an apostrophe and an s . For instance:. The owner of a MacBook is the MacBook's owner. The way to test if you’ve got the apostrophe in the right place is to cover up the apostrophe and everything after it. Is the word that is left the owner? If not, your apostrophe is in the wrong place. Some tricky ones to remember:.
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Tuts+ Style Guide
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Eg, etc, and i.e. Quotes and Speech Marks. Singular, Plural, and Contractions. The Envato Tuts Style Guide. A voice, tone, and style guide to be used across Envato Tuts .
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Ellipses
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Eg, etc, and i.e. Quotes and Speech Marks. Singular, Plural, and Contractions. An ellipsis (plural: ellipses) is a series of three dots: . There are two different ways to use ellipses on Tuts . Ellipses can be used in a quote to indicate the removal of unnecessary information. Do this by adding square brackets around the ellipsis, with a space either side. Here are some examples:. I studied electronic engineering and then computer science [.] which has proven quite useful.".
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Hyphens and Dashes
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Eg, etc, and i.e. Quotes and Speech Marks. Singular, Plural, and Contractions. Hyphens are used to form compounds of two or more words and to separate some prefixes and suffixes from root words. Hyphens should never be used in place of dashes. A well-balanced developer will be versed in multiple languages. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. An anti-Flash mindset is spreading throughout the web community. En dashes can be used to:. Take the place of hyphens when combining open compounds. Don't Use ...
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Bullets
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Eg, etc, and i.e. Quotes and Speech Marks. Singular, Plural, and Contractions. How to use bullet points to make text easier to read:. Use an introductory sentence followed by a colon. Use a full stop after every bullet point that is a complete sentence. Use no punctuation after bullets that are not complete sentences. Capitalize the first letter of every bullet point that is a complete sentence. Do not capitalize the first letter of bullets that are not complete sentences.
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Brackets
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Eg, etc, and i.e. Quotes and Speech Marks. Singular, Plural, and Contractions. Use (round brackets), not [square brackets], but avoid using brackets where possible. Instead, try to simplify your sentence structure or write more concisely. A full stop appears inside the brackets, if the bracket contains a complete sentence:. It’s definitely worth learning these keyboard shortcuts. (They’ll also work in other Adobe applications.).
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
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Eg, etc, and i.e. Quotes and Speech Marks. Singular, Plural, and Contractions. Spell out acronyms at first mention unless they’re well known in your content area, e.g. JPEG, AE, MIDI, HTML, SDK, PHP etc. Unless the acronym is widely known, spell it out in full. The first time you use an abbreviation or acronym, explain it in full on each page, and then refer to it by initials. For example Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Don’t use an acronym if you’re not going to use it again later in the text.
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Geography and Regions
https://styleguide.tutsplus.com/guide/style/geography.html
Eg, etc, and i.e. Quotes and Speech Marks. Singular, Plural, and Contractions. Compass directions are all in lowercase: the north, the south of England, the south-west, north-east Canada, western Europe, the far east, south-east Asia. Note the following exceptions: Middle East, Central America, North America, South America, Latin America.
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Voice and Tone
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Eg, etc, and i.e. Quotes and Speech Marks. Singular, Plural, and Contractions. Tuts should help people learn in a precise, concise, and approachable way. Everything we write, or say, should be:. Use the active rather than passive voice. It’s clearer and more direct. For example:. Tie the ribbon around the candle. Increase the canvas size to 800px. Change the shutter speed to 1/250s. The ribbon is tied around the candle. The canvas size is increased to 800px. The shutter speed is changed to 1/250s. Our te...
