How to kick-start the writing habit
Blogging can bring your business exposure, credibility, and whole lot more revenue – so it’s in your best interest to deliver a steady stream of powerful writing. But for a lot of us, that’s a tall order. If you’re finding your creative juices running a little dry, this list of quick and easy tips is sure to get them flowing again. Write nothing but headlines.
Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!
All layouts use valid markup and CSS, and have been tested successfully on Internet Explorer/win 5.0, 5.5, 6 and beta 2 preview of version 7; Opera 8.5, Firefox 1.5 and Safari 2. Each of the columns could be the longest, and for testing columns length I've used the script filler text on demand. Each layout could represent a site with five main sections: header, content, navigation, other stuff and footer. The basic markup, common to every layout, is the following: <div id="container"> <div id="header">Header</div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="content">Content</div> </div> <div id="navigation">Navigation</div> <div id="extra">Extra stuff</div> <div id="footer">Footer</div> </div>
How to write and deliver a great 'Best man' speech
Photo by trubluetitan At some point in your life, one of your buddies or your brother will probably ask you to be the best man in his wedding. This is a great honor. One of the duties of a best man is to give a speech wherein you say a few kind words about your friend/brother and his new wife. If you’ve been to many weddings, you know that oftentimes best man speeches can quickly devolve into an awkward, drunken spectacle.
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How to becoming a better writer by Stephen King
If you want to learn how to write better where do you go? Well, you can take a creative writing course. Or read the books, biographies and studies of men and women hailed as literary geniuses throughout history.
Accessibility Updates for Docs, Sites and Calendar
Posted by Naomi Black, Technical Program Manager, Accessibility Earlier this year, members of the blind community shared a powerful message with us about the importance of accessibility. On the Official Google Blog today, we announced some accessibility enhancements to our products, including new keyboard shortcuts and improved screen reader support in Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Calendar. For blind students and employees who rely on assistive technologies to access the web, we hope these improvements will make it easier to use our products. To answer your questions and discuss how today’s product updates affect blind users in businesses, governments and schools using Google Apps, we’d like to invite our enterprise customers to join us for a webinar on September 21.
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Key features Full-screen. Focus on your work. Even if Mark Pilgrim doesn't like full-screen editors, some of us do. Live text statistics. Word, page and character counts are updated live as you type.
18 Usability Resources for Librarians
Librarians are increasingly taking part in Web design efforts, usability testing, focus groups, and more in an effort to deliver an engaging user experience to their patrons. If you’re just learning about UX or you’re a seasoned pro these 18 articles, tools, websites, and blogs will help inform your usability initiatives. Articles How to Fix the 5 Most Common Mistakes with Focus Groups Jay Eskenazi writes for UX Magazine about How to Fix the 5 Most Common Mistakes with Focus Groups.
Writing Hacks, Part 1: Starting
By Scott Berkun, Aug. 28 2006 (#54) Writing is easy, it’s quality that’s hard. Any idiot who knows 5 words can write a sentence (e.g.
Mbedr - Embedded Flickr Notes
a Flickr photo embedding utility This utility will allow you to embed a photo from Flickr on your own site while retaining any annotated regions present on the original. See the example below. If the photo you want to include on your site doesn't have any annotations ("notes", as Flickr calls them), then don't bother using this utility, as it's pointless. Only public photos can be used with this utility at the moment.
How to to write a great lead for a blog post
In journalism, the first paragraph or two of a newspaper or magazine article are known as the “lead paragraphs” or simply “the lede”. More time is spent writing that those few words than the rest of the story.Why? Because if you don’t catch the reader’s attention, they won’t read the article.The same applies to blog posts: after the headline, the most important words you write are in the lead paragraphs. If you want people to actually read your post (and thus come back to your blog for more), you need to focus on that lead.A great lead should do the following things: Grab the reader’s attention. Make the reader want to read more.
okie law set to come into force
25 May 2012Last updated at 20:22 ET The cookie laws were drawn up to help privacy on the web Thousands of UK websites are now in breach of a law that dictates what they can log about visitors.
How to write a thank you note
Gratitude is a virtue every man should cultivate. Yet gratitude means nothing if you haven’t mastered the art of expressing it. A man should use every opportunity to express to those around him how much he appreciates their love, support, and generosity. One of the key ways of expressing gratitude is the thank you note.
The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
Statutory Instruments Education, England Laid before Parliament 20th April 2012 Coming into force 1st September 2012
