EDITING & WRITING

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70 Ways To Handle Text-Intensive Web Sites
Advice on formatting and displaying content on text-intensive sites. (3/2/2001 at Web Review)

Begin With the Blurb
Advice on writing blurbs, teases, or linked text - the text which a user clicks on to get to a new page. (4/20/2001 at WebReference.com)

Content Creation for Average People
There is some hope for more, and improved, writing on the web: tools that reduce people's fear of writing; tools that turn ordinary people into editors or collectors of information; and the use of education to show kids how to write in hypertext. (10/1/2000 at UseIt)

An Editor's Guide To Writers
Suggestions on how editors should can recruit and handle writers. (4/21/2000 at Web Review)

Effective Writing for the Web
How to write well for the web: figure out what your readers want; copyedit; be direct; and use a good layout. (3/10/2000 at Web Review)

Page Content: The Long and the Short of It
Advice on how long web pages should be, and how the content of the pages should affect that length. (3/16/2001 at WDVL)

Readability on the Internet
Advice on making the text on your website readable: avoid run-on sentences and never-ending paragraphs; use the right word (then vs. than, to vs. too vs. two, etc.); using the right font. (12/20/2001 at WDVL)

Webnotes: Writing for the Web
Advice on writing for the web - deal with computers' poor resolution; readers scan and skim, they don't read; and put the important content first. (10/5/2000 at WebReference.com)

Writing Web Documentation
Advice from a technical writer on how to write documentation for software products - including websites. (3/9/2000 at WebMonkey)

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WebReference: VRML 97: Now's the Time
WebRefernce article on the new VRML specification, VRML 97.

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