Web Word Wizardry A Net Savvy Writing Guide author Rachel McAlpine has a web site for Quality Web Content at webpagecontent.com. It focuses on writing and editing web content and microcontent. Every web design student needs these skills — or at least some of them — yet it’s the kind of teaching that slips through the cracks in most courses.
To make it easy for teachers & students McAlpine is preparing a CD-Rom full of tutorials, slide shows and 400 sample pages. This will be ready for sale in December 2001. Topics include writing for skim-readers, choosing and using keywords, writing html titles, optimising pages for search engines, credibility, legibility, and accessibility — and much more.
I’ll let you know when it is ready for sale. Meanwhile there are about 75 articles on such topics on her web site.
McAlpine says that students might also be interested in Peotrix #1 – a small competition for web designers – on her other web site: writing.co.nz/peox/.