Re: FN-FORUM writing for web
date posted 15th January 2001 11:46
"You appear to be copywriting for websites! Would you like me to scramble
your text for you?"
Whenever i get copy it comes in F*"£%))))!"* MS Word format with styles,
indents, tabs, paragraphs, double line breaks, special characters, tables
and every other cockup so i have to spend an hour per page reformatting it
to just, plain, english, TEXT.
If you are copywriting, not laying out, then the best package to use is
Notepad, saving things as .txt only. This keeps your words lovely and clean
and every web designer you work with will kiss your face.
You will only ever write short paragraphs or one liners because that's all
the text people can be bothered with. If you write more then it is not for a
website it's going to be printed out in the end, and that means someone has
to lay it out in Quark or Freehand or whatever, and they're gonna want PLAIN
TEXT too.
DO NOT write it in word and then just save it as text only. That's stupid.
If text is your business, Notepad is your friend. It takes no time to load,
and it's never crashed on me yet. :)
re: "word is very dated"
No it isn't, they bring out a new version every 6 seconds to add some more
"features" and extend the clipart library and make more money.
You need NONE of these features and could do a lot worse than buying an
electric typewriter.
Text is "very dated" i'm afraid, a picture tells a thousand words.
sorry, pet subject of mine.
:)
Mark
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Subject: FN-FORUM writing for web
> I am setting myself up as a copy writer for websites. Help...
> Emma
> Advice on the best packages and best designers to go to would be just
fantastic. Currently do all my writing in Word, think this is very dated!
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