Words on a page

As I’ve noted in the past, adherence to style guides and standards often becomes a quasi-religious act. It doesn’t have to be, and shouldn’t. This article offers five rules (probably not all hard and fast themselves) for creating or changing a style guide.

I especially like this paragraph from the article:

A style guide is often a collection of rules that have no firm basis in logic (unlike deciding whether to end sentences with periods). You're often merely choosing descriptors, such as whether to call squares of a dialog box "areas," "boxes," or "sections."