TY - BOOK AU - Price, Jonathan AU - Price, Lisa TI - Hot text: : web writing that works SN - 9780735711518 AV - TK5105.888 .P653 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - Indianapolis, IN : PB - New Riders KW - Web sites KW - Design KW - English language KW - Composition and exercises KW - Web site development KW - Online authorship N1 - Pt. 1. Catch the net spirit ― 1. Who am I writing for, and incidentally, who am I? ― 2. What kind of thing am I creating? ― 3. What will the web do to my text? ― 4. Attention! ― pt. 2. Write like a human being ― 5. Idea #1 : shorten that text― 6. Idea #2 : make text scannable ― 7. Idea #3 : cook up hot links ― 8. Idea #4 : build chunky paragraphs ― 9. Idea #5 : reduce cognitive burdens ― 10. Idea #6 : write menus that mean something ― pt. 3. Fine tune your style for the genres ― 11. Writing in a genre ― 12. Creating customer assistance that actually helps ― 13. Persuading niche markets, individuals, and the press ― 14. Making news that fits ― 15. Entertaining people who like to read ― 16. Getting a job ― pt. 4. Become a pro ― 17. So you wannabe a web writer or editor ― pt. 5. Backup ― 18. Writerly sites ― 19. If you like to read; B3ASP Digital Marketing: Content Marketing and Storytelling N2 - Attention, Web writers! This book will show you how to craft prose that grabs your guests' attention, changes their attitudes, and convinces them to act. You'll learn how to make your style fast, tight, and scannable. You'll cook up links that people love to click, menus that mean something, and pages of text that search engines rank high. You'll learn how to write great Web help, FAQs, responses to customers, marketing copy, press releases, news articles, e-mail newsletters, Webzine raves, or your own Web resume. Case studies show real-life examples you can follow. No matter what you write on the Web, you'll see how to personalize, build communities, and burst out of the conventional with your own honest style ER -