Ode to Web Glory

If I had only one professional goal for the rest of my life, it would be to make web content beautiful, smart, and engaging.

The web wants to be read. It wants to delight readers. It wants to be filled with the same delicious content that fills magazines and library shelves. But in our haste to make web content scannable and chunky, we’ve overlooked the basic rules of writing–writing something worth reading.

Content is king, but it’s also the heart of your website. Your content should speak to your visitors and give them exactly what they need. Your content should whisper, shout, cajole, and beckon. And if you can’t get it to do that, I can show you how.

  • June 2, 2009

    Inline margin notes would do wonders for my ability as a learner to absorb, recontextualize, and integrate other thoughts.


  • May 17, 2009

    I gave Wolfram Alpha my last question: Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?


  • May 14, 2009

    They had fallen into that rhythm he had once known so well, in step with the march only long married...