A List Apart: Articles: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing - The Diigo Meta page

• 22 Sep 09
  

  Chris Chesher

  Content is the heart of a brilliant user experience. From the body content to the alt text to the footer, the words that shape the page lie at the very center of an engaging visit. If the words aren’t beautiful and meaningful, the sleekest design in the world won’t compensate for it. The body can never replace a missing heart. [quote]

  web writing webwriting content

• 17 Jun 08
  

  Maggie Wolfe Riley

  writing content

• 20 May 08
  

  Tazem Zero

  Website Development ! Content Writing Tips

• 27 Feb 08
  

  Pavel Zemliansky
• 15 Jan 08
  

  Phil Tietjen

  420 writing web

• 31 Oct 07
  

  wayne anderson

  imported webDesign writing

• 16 Oct 07
  

  Barry Martin

  writing webwriting

• 25 Aug 07
  

  Taryn .

  publishing_industry writing

  • As our culture becomes increasingly digital, the art forms that support it must be constructed with the same care, deliberateness, and gusto as our traditional media. Intelligent content is the literature of our time. It is not enough that our printed books and magazines are ardently written and meticulously edited. Our culture loses much if we encourage online writers to sacrifice grace and personality on the altars of pith and scannability.
  • if you don’t really care about what the image says,” she said slowly, “you really don’t need it in the first place
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  • • I challenge the idea that web writing, which increasingly is becoming the soul of literature and media in our world, shouldn’t be beautiful and meaty, even lengthy where appropriate. And I encourage writers to think of themselves as central to the user’s experience, and to treat their own content not merely as king, but as heart, soul, and breath. We owe it to our craft, ourselves, and our culture to revive that which we have too long let suffer.
• 12 Aug 07
  

  Stephanie Booth

  writing design web communication usability inspiration ia website

• 02 Aug 07
  

  Rick L

  writing websitedevelopment

• 01 Aug 07
  

  adiwidjaja

  writing blog content inspiration

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  Gene Roche

  Ideas on web writing from A List Apart

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• 31 Jul 07
  

  Daniel Andrlik

  This is a fantastic article, that along with its [companion piece](http://technicalpoet.com/2007/07/31/undeadartofwriting/ "Free Culture and the Undead Art of Writing on the Web"), it covers how the influence of business on the web has been redu

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  Eric Holter

  copywriting websmartcrowd writing

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  Christy Tucker

  webdesign writing

  • I admit to having overlooked alt text. Until a year ago I sniffed at the idea of creating useful alt text for images. “If a user is blind,” I reasoned, “what does he care that I have a photograph of the university tower on my website?”

    
    

    My fellow designer shrugged. “Well, I guess if you don’t really care about what the image says,” she said slowly, “you really don’t need it in the first place.”

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  Christy Tucker on 2007-07-31
  Writing content, not just marketing copy, for webpages. Includes some discussion about using alt text to create an emotional response rather than just filling space to meet a requirement.
  

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