Writing for the web

School of Geography, University of Leeds


Writing on the web is not the same as writing for print media

Unfortunately much of the web started life as paper information. If you are starting webpages from scratch, you can do better, and the paper based information you produce will benefit.


Tips


If you've written text for your page, go through it and try and cut out 50% of the words. For example, one of the sentences above started out as "You should rewrite information in an 'inverted pyramid style', that is, you should make it explicit what the page is going to say, and give away the 'ending' at the top in the first paragraph", after a bit of cutting, it's down to... "Make the content or conclusions of a page obvious in the first paragraph".


Go on to learn about designing webpages.

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