Excellent guidelines for writing readable regulations are published by the U.S. Federal Register. It's so nice when government organisations make resources like this available to the general public as well as their own staff. I hate think of the money...
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Statistics: give them raw or fully processed
My sister sent me her email newsletter for comments -- always a dangerous move! It included two paragraphs of semi-digested statistics. Here's one. * What's important to members. The most frequently used areas of the site (in descending order): members,...
Quick, quick! Boldly enter New Zealand's Plain English Awards
Do not hesitate, as they say. To enter. If you care about plain English, you never think your web content is good enough. But hey, it's probably way better than most! Maybe some of your organisation's web content is really...
Content-delay syndrome is the norm
Pepi Ronalds on A List Apart got a rush of comments on a post lamenting the fact that content is the last to be considered or delivered, even on brilliant web developments. Hm, sounds familiar. Here's a sample of this...
How to hire a web editor
The other day I ran into a friend who was about to interview candidates for a position as web content editor. Now, many people ask me for advice on how to leap into this kind of career. So I asked...