A plug for Rachel McAlpine

Bennett, at the blog Semicolon, has a plug for Rachel Mcalpine's Web Word Wizardry. Excerpt:

I read this good short guide to writing for the web a year or two ago. Even though the book is a few years old now, its advice is still relevant: Web technologies change quickly, but the rules for good web writing are the same now as they were when the web was new.

Agreed. McAlpine was one of the first to look at how text works on the web, and I've learned a lot from her. Her own site is Quality Web Content, very much worth visiting. You'll also find a link to it in the Webwriting Resources list.

Comments

[Rachel McAlpine]

Hello Crawford! You are always so generous: thank you so much for your appreciation. It means a lot.

But we haven't been in touch for a while, and so this seems like a good moment to update you on my activities.

I still get raves about "that old book", Web Word Wizardry, and as Bennett says, "the rules for web writing are the same now as they were when the web was new." Which is pretty amazing, don't you think?

But I much prefer people to fall in love with my new book, "Write me a web page, Elsie!" (ccpress.info/writeme.htm) This deals with all the issues web writers confront today.

Contented.com has details about our brand new, 10-hour, online Diploma in Web Content: Core Skills. All the same good Rachelly qualities are there in abundance. Excuse me for boasting, but my business partner Alice and I are just so proud of the new Diploma we could burst.

[Ioan Panduru]

i like rachel.she is a clever woman.aniway,the internet is dificult