the elements of style

I found this great article that kind of does two things at once. (Click the title of this post to see it.) It takes some nicely worded "reminders" about good writing, from a small book by William Strunk on writing called "The elements of style", first published in 1918, and applies them (the reminders) to the practice of web design. I found it interesting for a number of reasons.

One reason is that even though it's so old, most of the advice is still good - as it applies to writing. Another is that as a writer today, you should be aware at least of the fundamentals of web design - even if you're not a web programmer - because it's quite likely that at some point some of your content is going to make it onto a website, and you may have to work with web designers and/or developers to get it there, so it's sensible to have some ammunition when you have to argue with them. Finally, it's interesting for the reason that the boxes and arrows website published the article, which is to provide advice to designers. Some writers do their own web design, so they should read this.

Here's a link to the full text of the Strunk and White book.