Becky Allen's link is from Smartisans.com: "Smartisans.com offers practical tips for web design. The site is sponsored by SoftMedia Artisans, Inc. They emphasize the major points of web writing such as using key words and highlighting important information. They list their resources and provide other links for further research."
Marshall Annis and April Mahoney provide this link from WebReference.com: Marshall says, "'Writing Well for the Web' by Catherine Titta gives several quick and easy tips for non-writers. She talks about how to get a readers attention and how to get your point across by using short, tight paragraphs. She also gives some tips for overcoming common mistakes when publishing on the web." April adds, "The article entitled 'Writing Well for the Web,' by Catherine Titta, provides useful pointers for people who are new to presenting their information online. Available on the WebReference.com site, this article contains subsections on style, headlines, mistakes, and resources. Titta advises us to write conversationally, use headlines for each paragraph, and "chunk" information."
Deepak Arora suggests this link from AhernInteractive.com: "Beginning with the importance of being brief, this site 'clears the way' for its conciseness. Following this, it explains four more steps on creating a good web page, including realizing the audience and the role of formatting. Also, for each of the five steps, a quick lesson is given on how to follow it correctly."
Paul Chuong's, Kristy Klein's, and Blake Loscalzo's link is from University of St.Thomas: Paul says, "The University of St. Thomas has provided an informative site which outlines the do's and don'ts of creating a personal website. It provides three brief paragraphs describing the attributes of a poorly designed website. What makes this site unique from similar websites is that it
provides a brief list of effective web designing techniques." Kristy says, "The site that I found is located at http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/writing_content.htm and is called 'Writing for Effective Web Pages.' This site is a study guide from the University of St. Thomas. The information is broken down in 'what not to do' and 'what to do' sections. Advice such as avoiding heavy text and too many unnecessary graphics is mentioned. I found this site to be helpful and clearly laid out." Blake adds, "The University of St. Thomas put together an outline of study guide and strategies to effectively evaluate a website's content."
John Fleming's and Sophie Moravej's link is from Sun.com: John says, "Sun Microsystems offers a comprehensive guide for
writing on the web. It offers tips on how to convert paper presentations into online presentations and how to keep them effective. Sun explains how to make the site easy to navigate and read for the user." Sophie adds, "Sun Microsystems provides hardware and software systems geared towards the corporate IT environment. They've provided some helpful hints for writing on the web and more detailed information is readily accessible through a few provided links."
Chris Gilmore suggests this link from Peg-As-Is.com: " Although this site is quite large and consists of many
pages, it is broken down into specific skills, proving very helpful. Hypertext language is defined and described in the opening lines, and the navigation options range from how to use this language to the techniques and methods of writing on the web. This article appears to be a useful tool in getting started on making a website."
Stefanie Kealey provides this link from Write2It.com: "This page, http://www.write2it.com/web_development_content.html, is brought to you by 'Write 2-it.com,' a California web design service. The author, Gary Green, makes it clear that 'effective web page content drives web
page design.' Along with tips on design and content of web pages, the site also provides suggestions for writing, publishing, and editing web page documents."
Julie Lauenger and Jeffrey Lees send this site from AListApart.com: Julie says, "This site discusses the challenge of writing on the web. The author of this page gives tips on how to write a web page, such as knowing why you are writing on a topic and whom you are writing to. The author suggests doing this by keeping the reader's interest by writing consiely and by speaking out about something controversal or writing your web page so it flows like a story." Jeffrey adds, "'10 Tips on Writing the Living Web' by Mark Bernstein, written August 16, 2002. Mark explains how some of the information you find on the web is finished, remains unchanged, and how there are still pages which are living. The information provided is useful, especially for those people who
do not write often for the web."
Paul Lavoie sends this article from David Dawson: ""Writing for the Web" by David Dawson is a great tool that can be used by web designers thinking of making an impression on their audiences. It states that writing on the web is significantly different than writing on paper, outlining these differences in a list of principles."
Taki Naito's link is from WebWord.com: "I came across an interesting interview with online writing expert Amy Gahran on writing for the web and creating effective online content at http://www.webword.com/interviews/gahran.html. Many important questions are asked, such as 'How can good writing, and good content, augment the usability of a website' and 'If there is any reliable techniques that writers can use to improve their writing on the web.' If you want the answers she will tell you the specifics on creating very effective websites with good content on this webpage."
Katie O'Keeffe's link is from ICRA.org: "The Internet Content Rating Association is devoted to rating the content of various sites and then relaying these ratings to parents, educators, and students alike. This site is very specific for it provides viewers with information such as who they are and why we should just ICRA. This information is also available in Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian, and Japanese.
Michelle Spangle provides this link from University of Toronto-Scarborough: "At http://tls.utsc.utoronto.ca/TWC/writeguides/webwriting.htm, The University of Toronto at Scarborough has a site on their University Writing Centre page which discusses writing for the web. This page discusses the differences between writing for the web and writing in traditional text, how
to write for one's browsing audience, how to organize one's page, and how to create a style that is appropriate for the topic. It focuses on the webpage as public domain and designing for easy and quick comprehension and navigation."
Jan Voolstra's link is from Dartmouth: "Web Teaching is a site put out by Dartmouth College that discusses the
many aspects of using the web,as well as creating Web sites.(http://www.dartmouth.edu/~webteach/articles/text.html) is a section of the site that discusses writing for the web and the differences in writing style as compared to non-web writing."
