How have charities increased donations made through their websites? Well, most made a start by putting a donate button on the home page and encouraging people to give by telling them what would be done with the money. But many have gone further and adopted a simple technique to make it easier for people to […]
Category Archives: Web writing
I recently got lost on the website of a big company. Nothing new in that, you may say, but the irony is that this company hosts one of my websites. I was trying to do some work on the database behind the website, and the website that was supposed to take me there was so […]
Why do so many websites fail to tell me what I want to know? A friend recommended we meet at a certain restaurant, so I looked it up. The website had an attractive design and friendly information about who runs it and what they serve. But I needed to know whether I could get there […]
Putting away winter clothes and getting out summer things makes me think, yet again, that I must get rid of some. Everything I don’t wear makes it harder to find the thing I want. It’s the same with a website: every extra page or bit of information means work for you to manage and makes […]
If anyone needed proof of the value of summarising, Yahoo’s purchase of Summly for millions of pounds is surely it. Summly is an app, created by 17-year-old Nick D’Aloisio, that uses an algorithm to provide automatic summaries of news stories found on the web. Announcing the deal with Yahoo, Nick D’Aloisio said “As we move […]