Technical Communication Camp

A few of my favorite (web) things

It has finally stopped raining in Pittsburgh (for the moment) so I'm going to blog while the sun shines.

I love the 'Burgh, but it does rain quite a bit in June. We have a large arts festival -- the Three Rivers Arts Festival -- that coincides with the rain every year. But it all seems to work out.

So ... here are a few of my favorite (web) things ...

• You can build your own fonts (and share them) with FontStruct http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/ (I read about this @ http://www.slate.com/id/2192535/)
• The Duck Island Greeking Machine generates greeked text in seven "languages" (Classical Latin, Hillbilly, Marketing, The Matrix, Metropolitan, Pseudo German, and Techno Babble). Very handy. http://www.duckisland.com/greekmachine.asp
• If you need to map colors for different outputs, the Tridesign PMS/RGB/Hex color (actually colour) chart is very useful. http://www.tridesign.com.au/index-tess1.php?ItemNo=2055

While on the subject of the web -- I highly recommend Janice (Ginny) Redish's new book Letting Go of the Words -- Writing Web Contents that Works. Lots of great information and solid examples. I have post-it notes all over my copy.

Lastly, an interesting article from slate.com about how we read online http://www.slate.com/id/2193552/ (Jakob Nielsen is referenced).

More later