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Five things The Times can learn from the new-look BBC News website

Oh dear, the second post criticising The Times in two weeks. I’ll never get a job at News International now. Oh well. The BBC News website relaunched today and it looks great. Now, you could argue that they have a far bigger budget and more time to play with than The Times, let alone the [...]

Back of the net! Three tips for writing about football

Writing about football has got harder since the internet came along. None of this casually perfecting the copy over a post-match pint, safe in the knowledge that the subs will polish it up before its inclusion in tomorrow’s back pages. Today’s football writers have to produce a 1000 word match report within minutes of the [...]

Eleven rules for writing for the web

The Guardian’s four-page spread on Ten Rules For Writing Fiction at the weekend was hugely enjoyable. Margaret Atwood said, ‘Take something to write on. Paper is good.’ Roddy Doyle said do keep a thesaurus – but in the shed where you can’t get at it easily. And Will Self finished on something rude which I [...]

Seven steps to great web copy

Lots of people can write for the web. But not everyone does it well and poor copy on your site can be off-putting to new customers. Here’s some easy ways to make your content clearer, more attractive and more easily found by your target audience.