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- Best practices in school library website design
- You're a librarian, not a web designer, but you can have a school library website that meets the needs of students and teachers if you keep it simple, don't take on more than you can manage, and focus on what you know.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Communicating information and ideas: a philosophy of writing
- In Writing for the Web, page 2
- Many kinds of writing can be adapted for the web, but it's important to know what you're trying to communicate.
- By David Walbert.
- Finding your audience: a primer
- In Writing for the Web, page 3
- Before you sit down to write something, ask yourself some questions about the people who will read it.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Keep it short (but not too short)
- In Writing for the Web, page 4
- Shorter paragraphs and pages will help make your writing easier to read on the web, but you don't have to sacrifice important content.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Scannability: organizing for the web
- In Writing for the Web, page 5
- How you organize and format your writing can go a long way toward making it readable.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- To link or not to link? Using hypertext wisely
- In Writing for the Web, page 6
- Links are the soul of the web, but make sure they support your content rather than detracting from it.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Understanding and using fonts
- In Writing for the Web, page 7
- Serifs, sans serifs, and when to use them.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Using a classroom webpage to communicate with parents
- Kathleen Eveleigh keeps her parents involved in her first-grade classroom by integrating a classroom webpage with her daily instruction.
- Format: article
- By Sydney Brown.
- Writing for the web
- In Writing for the Web, page 1
- Why teachers need to think about how they communicate on the web.
- By David Walbert.
- Writing for the Web
- How teachers can more effectively communicate information and ideas via the World Wide Web, to students, parents, colleagues, administrators, and the world.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
