by lesley | May 24, 2010 | Readability, Website copy
Web users are lazy and impatient – think of yourself when you’re waiting for a site to download that takes a few seconds longer than you expect! That means that web copy needs to get the message across FAST. The very first thing that your web visitor will...
by lesley | Jan 8, 2010 | Headlines, Readability
Ted Nicholas (the guru of copywriting) says you should spend more time on your headline than on the rest of your copy, I’m not sure I totally agree, but it’s definitely the top of my list of things to get right! If your headline does its job properly it...
by lesley | Sep 18, 2009 | Marketing, Readability, Website copy
I’ve spent a lot of time working with people on their websites over the last week or so – and creating a website that works is so much easier when you start with the site map – or plan. With one of my clients we established that there were six...
by lesley | Jul 21, 2009 | Website copy
If you are the company owner you’re probably the worst person to write your website copy – you simply know too much! Most of us are so passionate about what we do (or why are you doing it?) that we want to tell our readers EVERYTHING. The trouble is that...
by lesley | Jul 2, 2009 | Marketing, Readability, Website copy
I make no apologies for revisiting this subject – it’s important! I keep visiting websites that start their home page with ‘We are … a family company/expert carpet fitters/a long established company/dedicated to our customers/etc. etc....