Can’t get the media to do a write up? Perhaps, guilty of one of these angry journalist complaints? Work on a site with a team [Google edition] [Yahoo edition] [Microsoft Live edition]. This tool comes in handy when you’re working with a team on a Web site and [...]
37signals asks eight questions before, during, and sometimes after working on a project or task. These questions work well for writers and other freelancers. Those of us who work solo rarely have anyone to check with us to make sure we’re on the right track. So we need to help ourselves figure out if we’re on [...]
Jakob Nielsen’s Blah-Blah Text makes an important point that web site visitors want to cut to the chase. They don’t want to waste time with a welcome message or any of that. We writers have learned that we need to have an opening, body, and conclusion. But we also know that writing for the web breaks [...]
Dennison asked excellent questions in response to How to Do Usability Testing Cheap and Fast: Tell me if I follow correctly: Do you do the test only on users that have their own PC with them? So if you happen to be in a store where nobody has a machine or is willing to take the [...]
Gap Inc. closed down its family of Web sites so it could load the new designs that are supposed to make it easier to use the site and to find things with fewer clicks. gap.com has a tour of its new features. I shopped around the site and almost immediately I found a broken image [...]