What stops people reading your message?

What stops people reading your message?

Putting a barrier between your message and your reader makes absolutely no sense at all, but it’s surprising how many companies make it hard for people to process the information presented to them.  Of course, nobody does this deliberately, but also few...
Making sure your message gets through

Making sure your message gets through

I’m back on my soapbox about the importance of not only delivering the message that your potential client will respond to, but also presenting it in a way that makes it easy for them to see and process. After looking at many websites that start with...
Creating a website for your reader

Creating a website for your reader

Sometimes when I look at websites I wonder what the site owner was thinking when they put it together.  It’s rarely aimed at the reader.  If a website isn’t easy for the reader to understand quickly and find their way around easily, what else could it be...
How to really irritate your website visitor

How to really irritate your website visitor

I like to think that I write good quality web content – and my team do too – but once written it all depends on the design as to whether anyone ever reads it.  These are some of the things that really get my goat and are virtually guaranteed to stop people...
English like what she is wrote!

English like what she is wrote!

It always astonishes me that English has become the predominant international language.  The grammar is irregular, with many individual exceptions to learn and the vocabulary is huge with many words that mean something similar, but subtly different, not to mention the...