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How NOT to Design a Web Site
© Ugur Akinci Whatever you do to design your web site, make sure people can log in from any of the major browsers, including Google Chrome. Here is a web site that lost me right away because in order...
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2 Methods to Avoid Gender Ambiguity
© Ugur Akinci One of the hardest things in writing English is to avoid using the third person singular pronouns, unless you are writing for an exclusively male or female group. Every time I see a...
View ArticleI Really Like Google+
© Ugur Akinci There’s a new kid on the block: Google+. Google’s answer to Facebook has one thing going against it — with 700 million registered subscribers, Facebook is light years ahead in terms of...
View ArticleHow to Add New Random Rotating Header Images to a WordPress Twenty Eleven...
© Ugur Akinci WordPress Twenty Eleven blog theme looks pretty good with its rotating header images: But the template comes with eight default images which may not be appropriate for your blog. Or you...
View ArticleHow to Configure the Web Settings of your MS Word 2010 Technical Document
© Ugur Akinci You can save your MS Word 2010 documents as HTML web pages. TIP: Actually this is one of the ways in which you can easily transform your Word document into Amazon Kindle documents. For...
View ArticleAdobe Business Catalyst: the Dreamweaver killer?
© Ugur Akinci Everything’s going online these days. Everything is being deployed out to a “cloud” somewhere out there in the cyber space. So it’s no surprise that Adobe has made this strong move to...
View ArticleEbook Self-Publishing Alternatives: Amazon Kindle, Moodle, Tizra
© Ugur Akinci Every week I hear about yet another “platform” to self-publish content online. Today I had the chance to have a look at Tizra.com and wanted to compare it to Kindle and Moodle, two of my...
View Article"Is technical writing similar to content or article writing? In what way?"
© Ugur Akinci The answer is YES and NO. It is similar to content or article writing in the sense that you need to create prose that is easily understood, logically consistent and conveys useful...
View ArticleHTML5 — Seems Like the New Web Technology is Here to Stay
© Ugur Akinci I’m writing this after watching an informative and impressive presentation about HTML5 by Peter Lubbers. When Apple first announced that iPad would not be compatible with Flash, as an old...
View ArticleGOOGLE+ HANGOUT TEST REPORT
© Ugur Akinci Google+ Hangout is a great idea but certainly not a GoToMeeting or WebEx killer at all. It still has a lot of ways to go. In the tests I conducted, the GUI becomes very unstable as soon...
View ArticleHow NOT to Design a Web Site
© Ugur Akinci Whatever you do to design your web site, make sure people can log in from any of the major browsers, including Google Chrome. Here is a web site that lost me right away because in order...
View Article2 Methods to Avoid Gender Ambiguity
© Ugur Akinci One of the hardest things in writing English is to avoid using the third person singular pronouns, unless you are writing for an exclusively male or female group. Every time I see a...
View ArticleThe Lessons I Learned from SPAM Writers
© 2010 Ugur Akinci I receive a lot of SPAM. 99.9% is caught by my fantastic spam filter (Akismet). Before I delete SPAM messages, I read some of them and find the exercise very educational. I have no...
View ArticleTechnical Book Review – THE COMPASS: Essential Reading About XML, DITA, and...
© 2010 Ugur Akinci Here is a mighty little volume by Scriptorium.com that should be mandatory reading for all those either brand new to structured authoring or looking for technical details about DITA...
View ArticleMake Sure your Images Broadcast the Right Message about you & your business
A web site must reflect the correct image about you and your business with its design, color pallet, content, and also the IMAGES used. Sometimes I’m surprised how careless some web site owners are in...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome Tutorial — Information Design at its Finest
© 2010 Ugur Akinci Have you seen this cartoon-style tutorial by Google Chrome? It’s one of the finest examples of information design that I’ve seen. It’s perfectly tuned to its intended audience (geeks...
View ArticleHow to Write Blog Comments that will Get Published
The chances are you’re reading a number of blogs like this one throughout the day and leaving comments with the hope that they will get published. Leaving comments have a two-fold purpose: 1) To...
View ArticleThree Options to Save a MS Word Page as an HTML Web Page
© Ugur Akinci Granted, no professional web designer would use MS Word to design a web page. There are much better tools for that out there like the mother-of-all-HTM-editors DreamWeaver. However, there...
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