Oct 22 2009

Neither a master, nor a jack

No matter how much I bang on about plain English and stuff, well… it’s as if people don’t understand the words. This week my life has been plagued with people who think that writing web content clearly, and following accessibility criteria, will make their god-awful content boring. It’s enough to drive any right-thinking web editor completely insane. › Continue reading


May 29 2009

Web writing gone wrong

You would think that after at least ten or 15 years of the web people would know that brief is good and justified text is difficult to read online. I don’t want to get sued, but I have to say it’s just as well  this training company doesn’t teach web writing or plain English. And why are they called Sold Out Trainers – a name that suggests a faint tang of sweaty feet, without actually meaning old running shoes at all? › Continue reading