A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 242

July 31, 2007

Design your words and put the life back into web writing.

Better Writing Through Design

by Bronwyn Jones

How is it that the very foundation of the web, written text, has taken a strategic back seat to design? Bronwyn Jones argues that great web design is not possible without the design of words.

Reviving Anorexic Web Writing

by Amber Simmons

Intelligent web content is the literature of our time. Amber Simmons argues that conventional approaches have starved the life out of web writing.

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Editor’s Choice

originally ran: October 24, 2005

Attack of the Zombie Copy

by Erin Kissane

You’ve seen them around the web, these zombie sentences. They’re not hard to recognize: syntax slack and drooling, clauses empty of everything but a terrible hunger for human brains. Here’s how to fight back.