- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Chambers; Ill edition (27 April 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0550103244
- ISBN-13: 978-0550103246
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 387,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Writing copy for websites requires skills somewhat different from those used when writing for a printed page, and it is becoming increasingly vital to acquire such skills. Hence the importance of Susannah Ross's book... It's a big and important subject.
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Writing for the Web offers simple and effective advice for anyone who has to write copy for a website. It shows you how language works and how to select the right words and arrange them effectively to create a site that users can navigate easily and will visit again.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Writing For the Web is a good book for a young, beginning writer,
By Clifford R. Sevakis "Cliff the Wordsmith" (Rochester Hills, MI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Writing for the Web (Chambers Desktop Guides) (Paperback)
This book does a good job of taking a prospective website writer through the design parameters and the mindset required to write for the web. It also invokes the right attitude the writer must have toward subject-first headlines, captions and subheads and how website readers read differently versus the printed page. It is a more basic primer than I was seeking and is more for a younger, beginning writer, in my opinion. There was very little content that I haven't already read on the topic from Internet searches for web copywriting. As far as my service from Amazon.co.uk, it was prompt and professional, but shipping cost was a little dear.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great place to start,
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This review is from: Writing for the Web (Chambers Desktop Guides) (Paperback)
I bought this book when I was just starting my first job in digital content and I found it really useful. It's thoughtfully written, easy to understand and provides clear advice on the basics of how to write for the web.
Whether you're writing articles, ad copy or just simple functional site instructions for the internet, there are some basic things that you need to know, or at least think about, in order to ensure you're doing the best you can for your reader / user. While some of it is instinctive, there are technical aspects that need to be taken into account when writing for the web, and this book gives a great overview of the headspace you need to be in to write online properly. This book is just a little desktop guide - it's not a comprehensive manual - so there's a lot of ground it doesn't cover. There's not a lot in here about SEO best practice, but given the speed at which SEO trends change, and the ambiguity that surrounds what works and what doesn't when it comes to Search Engine Optimisation, it's probably a good thing that there's no serious attention given to it here. Overall this is a great starter book, and it will make you a better internet writer, but if you've already got a couple of weeks / months commercial internet writing under your belt, you might already have learned a lot of what's contained in here on the job, hence the 4 stars rather than 5. Personally, I'm glad I bought it anyway!
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A plain-language quide to the perfect website,
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This review is from: Writing for the Web (Chambers Desktop Guides) (Paperback)
Few things get me more wound up than struggling to navigate a website that is user-unfriendly because it is so badly written with a lay-out that defies common sense and logic. So, when I received a copy of Susannah Ross's book, my immediate reaction was "yes, yes, yes!". Here is a guide that encourages website designers and content writers to think about their sites from the point of view of the visitor and customer. This fundamental requirement is so often ignored, making visits to many websites a thoroughly disheartening and frustrating experience.
If you are planning a website - or want to reflect on the effectiveness of one you already have - Susannah's "Writing for the Web" is in plain English and a must-buy.
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