More often than not web design is about finding a compromise position between eye candy and eye oatmeal. And you often have to privilege one over the other.
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See? It’s not just me. Writing’s gotta change
I gave a workshop on web writing to a group of communications professionals all of whom had been in the biz since before ever there was an internet. (Mind you so have I, but never mind). When I told them that all their pithy, witty, teasing headlines had to go, the workshop went down hill. But now, even a newspaper – The New York Times – is saying writing has to change.
And it’s all because of Google.