Web Training - Resources to Help You!

Helpful articles and information from recognized experts or established websites.

Is Your Web Content a Marketing Liability? PR Breakfast Club, April 8, 2011
It’s easy for a company to lose sight of the fact that their website remains the mother ship of brand expression and commerce.

Advice for College Web Sites, The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 21, 2011

Yahoo Style Guide, writing, editing and creating content for the digital world.

Web Usability
From Jakob Nielsens' Alertbox. Older articles are still applicable. Who is Jakob Nielsen? "The world's leading expert on Web usability," U.S. News and World Report. Author of Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity

• Writing Style for Print vs. Web - Jun. 8, 2008
• Blah-Blah Text, Keep, Cut or Kill - Oct. 1, 2007
• Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2003 - Dec. 22, 2003
• Be Succinct! (Writing for the Web) - Mar. 15, 1997
• How Users Read on the Web - Oct. 1, 1997
• Using Link Titles to Help Users Predict Where They Are Going - January 11, 1998

Regarding Email Communications

• Email Charter, from Lower Columbia College
• Email Etiquette Dos and Don'ts, Marketing Blog of Vertical Response
• 6 Ways to Avoice Email Disasters, PR Daily

Overused Words and Phrases
From David Meerman Scott, online thought leadership and viral marketing strategist. Author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR

• The Gobbledygook Manifesto - how not to use overused words and phrases

Plain Language
From PlainLanguage.gov - improving communication from the federal government to the public.

• Word Suggestions - how and why to use simple words and phrases

More Information - ADA and other

• Web Accessibility Initiative Home - from the W3C
• Quick Reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - from the W3C
• How to Make Your Copy More Readable: Make Sentences Shorter, from ComPRehension, January 14, 2009
• 10 Typography Mistakes You Might Be Making, from thedesigncubicle
• The 5 Ws of web content usability, from insidetimshead.wordpress.com

From Wikipedia

• What is the Internet
• What is the World Wide Web
• What is HTML
• What is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)