Editing, Grammar, Humor

Typo?

08.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Sometimes typos are more than what they seem. Sometimes they’re not. You decide.
Check out this AP typo about potential John McCain VP candidate Joe Lieberman.

Design, SEO

Google Web Design Guidelines

08.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Google Webmaster Guidelines:
It is important for you to adhere to Google’s guidelines which will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you elect not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay close attention to the “Quality Guidelines,” which will outline some of the “illegal” practices that could [...]

Prose, Writing

Writing With Style

07.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

By Kurt Vonnegut
Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and intentional, elements of style.
These [...]

Grammar, Grammar Cartoon, Humor

You Rock, You Rule

07.16.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Design, Web Design

Are Web Safe Colors Dead?

07.15.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

The browser safe color palette consists of 256 colors that are dubbed as web safe.  This is because they were developed back when computer systems utilized 8 bit video cards and the 256 colors chosen were developed by programmers with no design sense. No designer would have picked these colors, as they lack both light [...]

Grammar

No Love For Bad Grammar

07.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Who would have thunk bad grammar could wreck a relationship? Well, from a letter written to Ask Amy from Loss For Words, that is exactly what could happen.

I am dating a very, very nice man. There’s just one problem: his language skills. He was not taught to speak properly. For example, he consistently uses [...]

Prose, Writing

The Joy of Prose

07.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Kerouac’s Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
List of Essentials

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write [...]

Grammar

You’re A Typo

07.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

This post could have used one more glance over!

This is a common typo that a spell checker will never find.