Chris Barr

"The Yahoo! Style Guide" was influenced by many past and present Yahoo! writers, editors, and content creators, and shaped by a core team of editors.

Chris Barr led the editors who wrote, edited, revised, proofread, copyedited, and otherwise made this guide possible. Chris became the founding editor in chief of CNET in 1995, during the formative years of Internet content standards. His editorial career spans 25 years.

Amy Weaver Dorning, who copyedits content across the Yahoo! network, provided solid ideas for shortening and simplifying longer passages of text and for streamlining steps in a process.

Heather Hutson managed the project, edits, and revisions with utmost skill and grace. She wrote the chapter on basic webpage coding, among other sections; kept us on track; and always strove for clarity.

Julie Wildhaber helped edit the whole shebang and wrote the chapters on audience, voice, and writing for the world, as well as sections of several other chapters, the guide’s exercises, and many examples. Julie trains writers and editors at Yahoo!.

Karen Seriguchi compiled much of the punctuation chapter and, because of her familiarity with numerous other style guides, helped us make informed decisions that considered both traditional principles and online practices.

Laura Barcella, a Yahoo! copy editor, approached the text from a general reader's perspective, focusing on comprehension for a broad audience.

Maria Cianci asked lots of questions throughout the editing process and sought to cut, combine, and clarify information. Maria is a Yahoo! editor and an expert on user-interaction writing.

Marla Miyashiro is the precise copy editor and proofreader whose skill, thoughtfulness, and stamina improved the entire book as we brought the project to a close.

Michele Meyer lent her skills to editing several chapters and contributed many terms to the Yahoo! word list. With Yahoo! since 2004, Michele copyedits content across the Yahoo! network.

Naomi Lucks plunged into this complex project while it was in progress. She lent her outsider's eye and years of experience, including as a writer and developmental editor, to the tasks of shaping the chapters and helping to harmonize the voices of our contributors.

Tony Herr is our longtime technical editor who pored over the intricacies of Web coding and alerted us to the many ways it can trip up writers. He was instrumental in building this website.

Trystan L. Bass concentrated particularly on reviewing the guide’s recommendations for writing user-interface text, always considering the website user experience. A Yahoo! editor since 2001, Trystan is an adamant defender of the serial comma.