by lesley | Mar 7, 2011 | Readability, Website copy
Your website is where people check you out so it needs to be sticky enough to keep people engaged. If people don’t stay – they don’t turn into potential customers, so the whole point of your website is to get people to stay long enough to make a...
by lesley | Jan 31, 2011 | Readability
When you’re writing copy for the web or for brochures, flyers or anything else you want people to read the most important thing is to get their attention – or you might as well not bother! It’s important to know where people are looking and how their...
by lesley | Jan 27, 2011 | Readability, Website copy
Sexy black pages with white writing look slick and make an instant impact, but they make the reader work very hard to process the words and assimilate the information. This applies to any page where the writing is lighter than the background it’s on. Gold on...
by lesley | Nov 24, 2010 | Marketing, Readability
1. If you want your reader to feel your words are for them, use ‘you’ and ‘your’ – not ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’. Most people are not interested in what you do, only in what they get. 2. Know what your...
by lesley | Nov 8, 2010 | Readability
In order to know how to get people to read what you have to say, you need to know what gets in the way of them getting your message. This is usually a combination of usability issues and readability issues. These are a few of the readability challenges that prevent...
by lesley | Sep 6, 2010 | Readability
If you’ve invested lots of time and money in creating a website and promoting yourself online, it could all be a bit pointless if people arrive on your site and then don’t stay long enough to get your message. These are a selection of things that stop...
