5 quick tips to creating web content

Before writing web content consider the following five helpful tips from http://www.wmictchampion.org.uk/5tips:

1. Who are you talking to? (target your audience)
2. Create a strong first paragraph (to encourage further reading)
3. Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs (apparently, average reading age in UK is 14)
4. Use bullet points (I love bullets)
5. Have a call for action (enable your readers)

Any other useful points please share (my call for action).

Make your online data vanish

New software at the University of Washington named ‘Vanish’ can now make your online data disappear!

Read more at this BBC technology article: ‘This website will self-destruct…‘ and on the Vanish web pages.

Tinychat

Tinychat.com is a free online chat room that is very easy to setup and requires no registration.

Just name your chat room and then pass the generated url to friends to begin chatting – it is that easy!

Features include:

• Embed within your website or blog
• Connect to Tweeter and other social networking sites
• Support for webcams
• Save chat text
• Is disposable

I can see this being very useful.

List of 50 Online Applications

Have a look at this list of 50 Online Applications.  No doubt, you will be familiar with many of them.

I do like lists!

Cool Web Resources

Found this page of links recently and have to say I’m really impressed.

Web resources from blog-well.com

It’s aimed at small businesses and non-profit organsations and contains some really cool stuff. If only I had time to read it all.Hope you find something useful.

Email hoaxes

At some point in your mailboxes life you may have received an email warning about a virus or some other topic from a friend being helpful. But how do you determine if the content is real and not a hoax?

Simple! One of your first stops should be the website www.hoax-slayer.com. Here you will find information to help you avoid falling for hoaxes and passing them to friends.

Test your broadband speed

This is a website that I use to check broadband speeds:

www.speedtest.net

Click your nearest orange pyramid and the speed test will begin.

Shorter URLs

Have you ever wanted to shorten long web addresses (URLs) within an email newsletter or other forms of communications? Well there are free services that do just that.

How do they work? You simply submit your long web address to the website which returns a shortened version. When someone clicks on the shorter version they are automatically redirected to the address of the original URL.

Two examples of such services include:

• http://tinyurl.com – no registration required
• http://www.digbig.com – registration required and only for work purposes. Read guidelines.

I haven’t had need to use either but am certainly keeping a note for the future.

If you know of others, let me know.