[thelist] help! UI naming/language conventions

[Otto Johnson]

Can anyone help here? I'd be most grateful :)

--- Otto Johnson <ottobjohnson at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello, newbie to the list, first time posting, I
> hope
> someone can help me :)
>
> I have been ordered to create a "naming and
> abbreviations conventions guide" for an online
> brokers
> management app, with standard column headers like
> Date,Amount, Description etc as well as more unusual
> ones like Type/Check, Price/Entry and other industry
> specific terms.
>
> I am NOT an editor, I'm a web developer, and this is
> clearly outside my jurisdiction, but times are
> tough,
> and so is my boss and he aint gonna hire a real
> editor
> to do this.
>
> SO: my question is, does anyone know of any online
> resources of standard naming conventions for such
> apps? Standard abbreviations in particular? Any help
> anyone can provide would be VERY appreciated as I'm
> definitely a little out of my territory on this. And
> just to clarify, I'm talking about the UI language
> usage, not in the DB.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Otto B.
>
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