I have been intending to write a post on blog writing style for a while now but have been letting it slip behind other priorities. To be honest there’s a reason for my not having got around to this post yet, because I suspect that once I publish the guidelines on how to write for a blog it will be apparent that I’m not quite there myself.
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Right now street maps on websites are very simple things, usually just a static map with an X marking the spot of head office. We’re not quite there yet, but I think we’re going to see a lot more imaginative applications on commercial websites before too long. In June this year both Google and Yahoo opened their mapping systems to outside users, for free.
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I realize that most people aren’t interested in the minute details, so I’ll try and keep this broad. In the beginning of the web there was HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), that is HTML is the language that all web pages were written in.
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How do you go about choosing a web designer? Judging by the number of results from a Google search for the phrase “choosing a web designer” (4,220) this is a common question. Here are some thoughts and links on the subject.
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The word usability means just what it says, it refers to the study and practise of making things, web sites in this case, more usable.
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eBusiness Connection is ‘A BC-based not-for-profit e-business resource centre’. It doesn’t look like it has been updated recently, but it does contain some interesting articles. Most interesting to me was the case study section, as this type of real-world data on web success stories can be hard to find.
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RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is one of those simple ideas that has the potential to make a big impact, think email.

RSS is simply a standard for publishing special web pages, called RSS feeds. Because all RSS feeds follow particular standards they can be processed by programs called aggregators. An aggregator, or feed reader, is a tool that takes a list of different feeds that you want to keep track of, your subscribed feeds, and presents you with all the content that’s new from your subscriptions.
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It’s an intuitive concept that a potential client who feels that they have a relationship with your organization is more likely to cross over into becoming an actual client than one who doesn’t feel that connection. A blog can be one way of creating that connection to potential clients.
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The term blog is a contraction of weblog, not that weblog is much more descriptive. A blog is simply a type of website, the definitions of what exactly a blog is vary, but there are some features which are common across most blogs.
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A blog is basically similar to any other web site, but there are a few different terms and concepts it is useful to understand.
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