A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 269

Authors: S: Amber Simmons

Amber Simmons

Amber Simmons is a freelance writer and a web designer at the University of Texas at Austin. In her free time, she writes about religion and ethics at Breathless Noon. She can occasionally be found wrangling with code at Technical Poet.

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Reviving Anorexic Web Writing

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We’ve starved all the life out of web writing. The kind of writing we encourage is lifeless, insipid, and calorie-free. If we want to get back on track—to allow writers to write wonderful user experiences—we have to change our expectations and our rules.

Gentle Reader, Stay Awhile; I Will Be Faithful

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“In order to earn my reader’s trust, in order to convince him to “stay awhile,” I must be faithful.”