Hi. A really useful article from Freepint on writing content for the web. Looks like I don’t need that training course after all!
This is a really insightful and useful article about preparing content for the web. It’s not something that I am responsible for in my day to day work, and it probably doesn’t apply to blogs in the same way as web pages, but it is really interesting to hear how content needs to be presented entirely differently than one would write an essay, etc.
It contains really useful and practical tips, so if you are interested, it is well worth a read.
Along similar lines is the plan english campaign - a campaign to eliminate jargon and establish a culture of writing public information in plain, easy to understand english. This is a far cry from what we were taught in University, and indeed what I am used to. I know that people within my work have attended plain english courses as a requirement for taking part in projects with clients, so as a movement it really seems to be gaining momentum.
