Consolidating Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been consolidating and spring cleaning my blog. This has involved using a self-hosted WordPress installation to import a bunch of old backup files, then adding some other […]
I was reading Chris Bowler’s most recent email newsletter today. In the intro to it he makes the comment: It has simply been a matter of waiting and looking for the right things to write […]
The telling of stories helps us to rewire the brain and reattach emotional significance to the memories we have. The act of being creative helps to balance the tendency to over-rely on logic as a […]
Yesterday I made a couple of changes to my blog, though I’m hoping that you will barely notice one of them. The change you will most likely notice is a change of blog name, from […]
I’m interested in encouraging people to blog, in whatever way works for them. I recently found the following post which does just that: Small b blogging by Tom Critchlow
Today’s writing was to finally put an “About” page on this blog. I find these the hardest part of a website to write and I will revise what I wrote today, but it’s a start.
A good article on some of the things that make web writing insipid and inspiration to do better: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing by Amber Simmons (2007)
As I’ve been reading and researching information about writing for the web, I realised that it will save me time to find a book on the topic by someone who already knows about it. After […]
The famous answer by Jakob Nielson to “How do users read on the web?” is “They don’t.” Very few web users read written web content word-for-word. Instead, they scan the page searching for the information […]
