Below are the slides that accompanied a talk I gave at a university last week on writing for the web. As promised, accompanying the slides are some articles that might be useful for those in the audience (or anyone else) who would like some tips on writing for the web.
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Jakob Nielsen on writing for the web
Some specific Nielsen:
How users read on the web
First 2 words: a signal for the scanning eye
Writing style for print vs. web
World’s best headlines
Blah-Blah Text: keep, cut, or kill?
Traditional writing skills don’t work on web
Writing killer web headings and links
How web is different from print
Writing for the web: Part 1
Writing for the web: Part 2
Some other things:
The cure for content-delay syndrome
Writing for blogs
and…
The 2009 CASE Awards of Excellence for websites have been announced.
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