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]

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• 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

• 12 Aug 07
  

  Stephanie Booth

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• 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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