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Author Redish, Janice.

Title Letting go of the words : writing Web content that works / Janice (Ginny) Redish
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 365 pages) : color illustrations
Series The Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies
Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies.
Contents Foreword / Steve Krug -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Content! Content! Content! -- 2. People! People! People! -- 3. Starting well : home pages -- 4. Getting there : pathway pages -- 5. Writing information, not documents -- 6. Focusing on your essential messages -- 7. Designing your web pages for easy use -- 8. Tuning up your sentences -- 9. Using lists and tables -- 10. Breaking up your text with headings -- 11. Using illustrations effectively -- 12. Writing meaningful links -- 13. Getting from draft to final web pages -- Interlude : creating an organic style guide -- Bibliography -- Subject index -- Index of web sites shown as examples
Summary On the web, whether on the job or at home, we usually want to grab information and use it quickly. We go to the web to get answers to questions or to complete tasks to gather information, reading only what we need. We are all too busy to read much on the web. This book helps you write successfully for web users. It offers strategy, process, and tactics for creating or revising content for the web. It helps you plan, organize, write, design, and test web content that will make web users come back again and again to your site. Learn how to create usable and useful content for the web from the master. The author has taught and mentored hundreds of writers, information designers, and content owners in the principles and secrets of creating web information that is easy to scan, easy to read, and easy to use. This book will help anyone creating web content do it better
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-352) and indexes
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Subject Web site development.
Web sites -- Design.
COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- General.
COMPUTERS -- Web -- User Generated Content.
COMPUTERS -- Interactive & Multimedia.
COMPUTERS -- Web -- Site Design.
Web site development.
Web sites -- Design.
Web site development
Web sites -- Design
Online-Medien
Textproduktion
Website
Sites Web -- Développement.
Sites Web -- Design.
Webbdesign.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780080555386
0080555381