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With the growing popularity of online writing for the web, it is important to know the proper techniques for writing clean and comprehensible text. Writing for the web should be clear for your readers and consist of text that can easily be scanned for information. This will allow the reader to quickly scan through the text to find what they are looking for.
Follow these 10 rules when writing for the web:
1. Know your product
Knowing your product will allow you to write descriptive and meaningful text for the web. If you know exactly what your product does, then you can prevent hollow sentences that will confuse your reader. Simply start by describing your product and what it does.
2. Understanding the solution
Understanding the solution to which problem your product solves or need that your product fills is a vital aspect to writing good text for the web.
3. Highlight the main features
Highlight the main features of your product to emphasize the main points that you want the reader to know. This will benefit them by making the information they are looking for easily accessible.
4. Write a quick draft
Write a quick draft to get all of your thoughts and ideas out at once so that later you can revise and organize the information for the web.
5. Rewriting your draft
Rewriting your draft will put into perspective your thoughts and ideas that you got out in your first quick draft. Then you can make the necessary adjustments to organize the text in a way that will make sense for your readers.
6. Plan
Plan how you want the text laid out on the web so your readers can take out the necessary bits and pieces of information that they are looking for.
7. Proofread
Proofread the writing that you have for the web to make sure that the text flows in a way that will make sense for the reader. This is also a good time to check for spelling and grammar errors that can distract the reader. If possible, have someone else proofread your writing to see if it makes sense to them. This will let you know if they understood your writing and if it is ready for the web.
8. Revise
Revise any unclear or congested areas of your writing that may be hard for the reader to understand. Remove unnecessary information that may confuse the reader or cause them to move on to something else on the web to read. This is also the time to make changes to any feedback that you may have received from another proofreader.
9. Finalize your writing
Finalize your writing by making sure that the information for the reader is clean with comprehensible text. Make any necessary changes to areas where this is lacking. Check the writing for clarity that keeps a consistent flow of the information. This is where you make sure your writing is ready for the web.
10. Know when to quit
Once you have your writing ready to post on the web, avoid making any drastic last minute changes. Do as little as possible with your writing at this point and know when to quit.
February 23rd, 2012 Pinterest
I have a new addiction, it is called… Pinterest. This site is so fun. Finally there is a place to “store” all these great ideas I read about and want to try later. Well until now when the time came around I forgot all about the great ideas because for me out of site is typically out of mind. I have found many fun ideas and inspiration for storage and cooking.
In my search of what Pinterest is all about I found many articles about tips n tricks for those who want others to repin their pictures. One great tip, any picture you pin should include text. This is sometimes a pain but makes a lot of sense because seeing an interesting picture and instantly knowing more about it with a few characters entices one to want to repin it more frequently. It makes it easier to know what the picture represents. For more tips and tricks on using Pinterest read this.
Since the beginning of the year I have noticed the growth of users on Pinterest, it is huge. Not surprisingly most Pinners are women. However there are many categories for men and that is growing as well. Take DIY, sports, cars, fitness, health, these are all relevent subjects for men. Any business wanting to attract male consumers will put themselves out there on Pinterest, there will be growth with the males when they catch on the ease of it all. Interesting facts I found for targeting the men through Pinterest can be read here.
Happy Pinning to you all.
Titanium-Jewelry.com awards prizes to three contestants for Romance Contest on Valentine’s Day 2012
Modesto, California, United States, February 15, 2012 – Titanium-Jewelry.com, a leading online jeweler specializing in modern mens wedding bands and titanium wedding bands, has announced the winners of the Remember Reunite Rejoice Contest for 2012. There was a Grand Prize Winner, and two Runners Up. The Grand Prize winner received a pair of diamond earring studs, ($950 value), and a Date Night Package, ($130 value). Each Runner Up received a Titanium Heart Bracelet, ($139 value) and a Date Night Package, ($130 value).
The Grand prize winner is Hisham Ibrahim, whose captivating video submission “Honeymoon in Las Vegas. Our Honeymoon from Washington DC to Las Vegas“, was made to look like a movie trailer. The first runner up, David Chin, wrote a touching story of destiny starting in junior high and ending 20 years later with a marriage ceremony on 10-10-10. The second runner up, Nabila Ibrahim, submitted a video of her exotic “Royal Moroccan Wedding”. All submissions can be found on the Titanium-Jewelry.com Facebook page.
Since 2002, Titanium-Jewelry.com has been a leading internet jeweler of award winning titanium wedding bands and jewelry, with an emphasis on modern designs. Titanium-Jewelry.com specializes in mens titanium rings, tungsten rings and cobalt rings combined with the precious metals and diamonds. This company focuses on offering the latest and most unique designs and world class customer service. Not only is Titanium-Jewlery.com an online jewelry retailer but their parent company has a physical jewelry store located in Modesto, CA.
About Titanium-Jewelry.com
Titanium-Jewelry.com offers sophisticated designs from ArtCarved, Benchmark, COGE, Diana Classic, Edward Mirell, Heavy Stone Rings, J.R. Yates, Triton and the Belloria Black Diamond collection for her. Enticing grooms and couples worldwide, the online retailer provides a multitude of styles and metals representing the best selection of palladium rings, mens titanium rings, tungsten rings, and men’s wedding bands for the fashion forward male and female.
Experts in modern men’s wedding rings and modern metals jewelry, Titanium-Jewelry.com leads the industry in contemporary jewelry fashions. For more information, please visit www.Titanium-Jewelry.com.
Personal branding can get confusing and frustrating when you have multiple social media platforms to work in. Especially when each one has a different audience profile to work with. It also becomes tiresome trying to keep each one of your social media platforms current and up to date. The social media platforms that you use for casual acquaintance networking will contain different messages than those of your professional and job search networking profiles. Having all of these social media platforms can make personal brand messaging become unnecessarily complicated.
One way to avoid this social media platform crisis is joining the circle of Google+. Now there is a personal branding tool that can put social media networking into perspective by avoiding all the audience mix-up platform pitfalls. Google+ is just one social media platform that has been crafted to tailor the different messaging audiences, casual and professional, instead of going through multiple social media sites. This is achieved by creating circles to place your contacts in and specifying the type of relationship significance that you have with them.
Google+ takes on a new level of social media networking by connecting and sharing on the web like in real life. With your personalized circles, you can share your thoughts, links and photos to the appropriate audience without going to a different social media platform for that specific messaging audience. Once you have your professional contacts grouped in a circle you can target a specific message to the appropriate professional networking group. The same goes for your casual contacts, once they are grouped in a circle you can send specific messages to them without going to your professional circle. What a better and more relaxed way to establish your personal branding by connecting to specific groups and communicate the appropriate message depending on the type of relationship.
For a unique custom engagement ring or wedding band customers are choosing to add birthstones
Huntington Beach, California, United States, February 6, 2011 – Couples today wanting to add a special touch to engagement rings often try to make the ring a bit different. Simone & Son specializes in customizing jewelry and recognizes the uniqueness a custom ring gives to the couple. An ever increasing way for couples to create custom wedding rings is to add colored gems to the piece. Incorporating birthstone gems into a custom wedding or engagement ring really makes the piece unique and special to the bride and groom.
The idea of incorporating colored gems can also be used to signify children of the couple or an anniversary month. They can be placed in a pendent as well as a ring. This customization method is a special touch that means so much to a couple or individual. When love and thought are added to a piece of jewelry by great design and craftsmanship the individual it is presented to truly knows they are loved.
By utilizing the advancement in technology and computer aid, there are virtually no limitations on the exquisite works that the jewelers at Simone & Son can accomplish. By integrating modern prototyping technology models are able to be created in fine detail at a faster pace. With many years of cultivated craftsmanship and skill customers can ensure of receiving nothing but the highest quality work. Through the long passed down family tradition of making jewelry since 1945, customers can rely on the family presence and skill when choosing custom wedding rings by Simone & Son.
About Simone & Son
Recognized as one of the premier Orange County jewelry design houses, Simone & Son’s family tradition of making fine jewelry dates back to 1945, in the South of France. Today, the award-winning design team produces exquisite fine jewelry, specializing in custom engagement rings. Simone & Son works with clients one-on-one to produce the most distinctive engagement rings and wedding rings Orange County clients will find. Any concept or design can be brought to life in the company’s full service showroom, which stocks G.I.A. certified diamonds that also are certified conflict free. Simone & Son’s staff can locate diamonds and gems from anywhere around the world, assuring the final piece will be a cherished heirloom for years to come. For more information, please visit www.simoneandson.com or call 714-964-4012 for a free design consultation.
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