Making a Corporate Style Guide

I would like a guide for making a corporate style guide. 

I would like to make some clear and hard rules for how my coworkers
should capitalize, bold, and otherwise format command names, product
names, and other special pieces of text. Also, for how they should
format different kinds of lists and text in general. My goal is for the
company to be able to maintain a consistent style even without me.
(Hey, I'm aware of my own mortality. :-)

My problem so far is that all of my attempts at style guides have
looked like a long and disorganized list of petty rules. I think I'm
lacking the proper perspective because I've never actually read a
corporate style guide.

I realize this appears to be off-topic. While I will use this first for
the manuals, I also intend to create a style guide for the website, as
well.

I did look at the HWG resources, but all I found were style guides for
web site design. Useful, but not what I'm looking for, I believe.

TIA,
complex

Now, shouldn't "Make it look like the last manual" be enough?


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Michael Greisman
Webmaster
Scanalytics, Inc.

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