Writing

Learn more about writing. Copywriting, writing for blogs, books, magazine articles, keeping track of article ideas - anything that is related to the writing process.

The dilemma of comments

Allowing comments is a great way to get reader feedback, but because of frequent abuse managing comments takes a lot of time that could be spent on better things.

  • September 20, 2007
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5 blogs that make me think

Five bloggers whose writings tend to make me think.

  • June 12, 2007
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Comment posting guidelines

A few simple guidelines for improving the quality of comments you post on this and other blogs.

  • November 20, 2006
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Making your headlines work for you and for your readers

Make your headlines work for you by bringing in new readers, and for your readers by helping them understand what your articles are about.

  • April 27, 2006
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Which blogging style do you use?

There are several different styles of blogging that will generate traffic to a site.

  • December 3, 2005
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Typography, semantics and document structure

A good introduction to semantics and document structure for anyone who hasn’t already started thinking structurally when marking up documents.

  • November 26, 2005
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Measuring text readability

How to check and improve the readability of your texts.

  • September 27, 2005
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A Rant (Mostly) About Web Content

Many people don’t realise that a website needs good content to work.

  • February 11, 2005
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The writing process

A description of my workflow for researching and writing articles, followed by a discussion containing great tips from my readers.

  • January 26, 2005
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How to properly format dates

Learn how to format dates so that everybody can understand them.

  • August 10, 2004
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Writing effective link text

Six guidelines for writing better link text.

  • August 7, 2004
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Articles on Search Engine Positioning

Twelve articles and a glossary on SEO.

  • June 29, 2004
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Writing Resources

I’m always on the lookout for helpful online writing resources, and recently I’ve found a couple of good ones. Even…

  • March 6, 2004
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Back from nowhere

I’m sort of back from a much needed break, but it will be another couple of weeks before I resume…

  • February 4, 2004
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Things to read

I’ve come across some recent articles that are worth reading. A List Apart 162 contains three articles. In A Fairy,…

  • November 8, 2003
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Roger Johansson is a Swedish web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability. More about me and this site.

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