How to Design and Write Web Pages Today

This standards-based approach shows readers how to create accessible, usable, and sustainable websites.

Writing and designing for the Web are essential to anyone looking to advance his or her personal, academic, or professional Internet presence. How to Design and Write Web Pages Today offers an approach for building sites that reach your intended audience, using methods that enable a site to be updated and improved over time.

An introduction to standards-based Web design, this book treats creating a website from the point of view of the writer, focusing on writing concerns and how they fit with the technological challenges of the Web. Readers will learn about the reasons for writing on the Web; the challenges of writing there; and the solid, but flexible construction of individual pages. The focus is on building websites that can grow, including sites built around the popular, open-source WordPress blogging system. Rich with examples, the book demonstrates that Web writing and design can be fast and fun--and accomplished without expensive software or sophisticated programming skills.

* Screenshots of different Web design approaches, practices, and user experiences--all based on work by the author

* A brief glossary of the most common terms

* A select, annotated bibliography for going even further in your Web writing, and staying current as Web writing and design progress over time.