Browse the following sites that explore how we read and
write on the Web:
4http://www.hotwired.com/hardwired/wiredstyle
Writing advice from the editor of Wired magazine.
4http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=5675
An article about how online news organizations have adapted
their designs in response to studies about how people read
online.
4http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html
Advice about how to design a Web page using scannable text,
headings, lists, and less content than comparable print
documents.
Now look at two lists that attempt to compile “the
best of the Web.” Choose two or three sites that interest
you and think about what makes them “winning” sites?
Do they follow most of the guidelines outlined in the articles
above? What other qualities and features make them stand
out? Do you think these sites will still be around in two
years? Why or why not?
PC magazine lists its “Top 100 Sites” every
year. 4http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,4148,7488,00.asp
The Webby awards list reflects the best
Web sites in thirty categories, as selected by members of
the International
Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and popular voting:
http://www.webbyawards.com/main/.
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