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Writing for Your Website

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Writing for Your Website - Susannah Ross

Writing for Your Website by Susannah Ross

Susannah Ross

The Bottom Line

An excellent overview of how to write for the Web.

Pros

  • Good for both Web developers and other writers
  • Covers basics of good writing and Web specifics
  • Even discusses some layout issues for Web writing

Cons

  • None

Description

  • Learn to write effectively for your audience on the Web.
  • Present your Web site for the biggest impact.
  • Evaluate your site and improve your ideas for your site.
  • Covers basic grammar, sentence structure, and parts of speech.
  • Suggestions for writing your home page.
  • Explanations of layout, fonts, colors, and headings to create more effective pages.

Guide Review - Writing for Your Website

If you're looking for a book to help you learn HTML, this isn't it. But if you're a writer or Web developer looking to improve your Web site with good writing that works on the Internet, this is the perfect book. It covers more than just grammar and spelling, but also an explanation of how writing is different when it is on a Web site. High quality Web sites have good writing and content for the readers.

User Reviews

 4 out of 5
Career of Technical Writer, Member SaurabhRanjan

Technical Writer is an emerging career. With rise in the number of Software Company made an increase in demand for Technical Writer. Technical Writer shapes an important role in developing the software project. The responsibility of a Technical writer is to understand the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and give them to proper writing format. Tech-Writer prepares documentation in the form of User Manual, Installation Guides, Online help and release notes at the end of project. To be choose your career as technical writer, Communication and writing skill should be excellent, besides this, you should be technical sound enough to understand the requirement of project. Now a day, the writer must have the working knowledge of different software tools used to prepare the Software-document. The Recent tools for Technical Writer have seen in Software Company is Robo Help, MS-Office, and Snag IT etc. Each tool is extraordinary in its work. Amongst all of these, Robo Help has a demand. Company expects that Technical Writer should have prior working knowledge on Robo Tools. Though, the Recession has cut down the job market, but somehow, Candidates can choice their career as Technical Writer with the specified skills. Fresher in this field can expect salary of 10k -15 k. However, Technical Writer who has already more than 2 years in this field can get 25 k and go more than this depending on the respective skills. If you think , you have the passion of writing, communicating and have sound knowledge of software tools used for Technical Writer, this is the best ever career to be opt.

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