From the crown of its cranium to the tips of its Ruby-slippered toes, A List Apart 4.0 is both old and new.
Topic: Writing
Helping Your Visitors: a State of Mind
Even the simplest website is harder to figure out than a catalog or magazine. We all know how to “use” a catalog: start at the front cover and keep turning the pages. But with every new site we visit, we have to “learn” how it works, how its “pages” turn, how to find what we’re looking for. Text that takes visitors’ needs into account can help guide them through the maze.
A Fairy, a Low-Fat Bagel, and a Sack of Hammers
Never underestimate the importance of words on the web.
10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
Your information architecture is as smooth, clear, and inviting as a lake. Your design rocks. Your code works. But what keeps readers coming back is compelling writing that’s continually fresh and new. Updating daily content can challenge the most dedicated scribe or site owner. Mark Bernstein’s ten tips will help you keep the good words (and readers) coming.
How to Write a Better Weblog
Great writing can’t be taught, but bad writing can be avoided. Mahoney shares tips to enhance the writing on your personal site, blog, journal, etc.
Typography Matters
It’s a style thing. It’s a usability thing. It’s a tricky thing for large content sites and a step up for independents. It’s typographically correct punctuation on the web, and ALA’s Erin Kissane makes the case for it.
Evolving Client Content
Content management systems are only as good as the content they manage. Garrity explores the care and feeding of low-budget clients who need high-quality content.
Beyond Usability and Design: The Narrative Web
Crafting a narrative web: To succeed profoundly, Bernstein says, websites must go beyond usability and design, deeply engaging readers by turning their journeys through the site into rich, memorable, narrative experiences.
The Art of Topless Dancing and Information Design
Creating a web site makes for all sorts of strange working relationships. What does an information designer have to do to get a little cooperation?
A Case for Web Storytelling
In our attention to style and technology, we often overlook a vital element in the web design mix: narrative voice.
