{"id":227,"date":"2009-10-06T22:05:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T09:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/?p=227"},"modified":"2009-12-08T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T03:08:18","slug":"web-word-wizardry-rachel-mcalpine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/2009\/10\/06\/web-word-wizardry-rachel-mcalpine\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Word Wizardry &#8212; Rachel McAlpine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1580082238?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thunderguycom-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1580082238\" title=\"Buy Web Word Wizardry at amazon.com\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/web-word-wizardry.jpg\" alt=\"Web Word Wizardry\" width=\"111\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-233\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thunderguycom-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1580082238\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>I read this good short guide to writing for the web a year or two ago. Even though the book is a few years old now, its advice is still relevant: Web technologies change quickly, but the rules for good web writing are the same now as they were when the web was new.<\/p>\n<p>I learned a lot from the sections on writing for international users, specifically for users who aren&#8217;t proficient at reading English. Short, active sentences without complicated words. It has helped me respond usefully to comments on this website, which has readers from all over the world.<!--nevermore--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this good short guide to writing for the web a year or two ago. Even though the book is a few years old now, its advice is still relevant: Web technologies change quickly, but the rules for good web writing are the same now as they were when the web was new. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[30,84,18],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usability","tag-books","tag-usability","tag-web-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}