Letting go of the words writing Web content that works /

On the web, whether on the job or at home, we usually want to grab information and use it quickly. We go to the web to get answers to questions or to complete tasks to gather information, reading only what we need. We are all too busy to read much on the web. This book helps you write successfully f...

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Main Author: Redish, Janice.
Other Authors: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, [2007]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 365 pages) : color illustrations.
Series: Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Steve Krug
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Content! Content! Content!
  • 2. People! People! People!
  • 3. Starting well : home pages
  • 4. Getting there : pathway pages
  • 5. Writing information, not documents
  • 6. Focusing on your essential messages
  • 7. Designing your web pages for easy use
  • 8. Tuning up your sentences
  • 9. Using lists and tables
  • 10. Breaking up your text with headings
  • 11. Using illustrations effectively
  • 12. Writing meaningful links
  • 13. Getting from draft to final web pages
  • Interlude : creating an organic style guide
  • Bibliography
  • Subject index
  • Index of web sites shown as examples.