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- Warren has been a technical writer since 1994
May 1, 2009 | 6:21 pm
Since 1994 I have established and maintained a thriving technical writing consulting business. During this time I have been responsible for designing, authoring, and publishing on-line help systems, websites, user guides, requirement and design specifications, policies and procedures, training materials, and promotional products. I also offer training courses on technical writing to industry and through [...] -
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How popular is the online media
May 15, 2008
The online media experienced it’s real boom in the early 1990′s, shortly after Tim Berners-Lee first developed HTTP—Hypertext Transfer Protocol , the method computers would use to communicate hypertext documents over the Internet; designed the URI—Universal Resource Identifier, a scheme to give documents addresses on the Internet; created the first web-browser, Tim called his first browser the “WorldWideWeb“; and developed HTML—HyperText Markup Language, the markup language for web-pages. This was a big year for Tim.
Determining how popular the web real is can be a little difficult, but to put it into some perspective let’s consider three metrics:
- the number of website
- the percentage of people accessing the web
- the amount of time being spent on some popular sites
May
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Writing hyperlink text
May 5, 2008
It’s essential that we find and understand links quickly since most web pages we visit don’t contain the information we’re looking for, they merely help us find the page we want.
A typical process we go through to find information on the web is…
