The following are the workshop notes for a presentation I gave recently to Portland Community College’s Technical Writing class. The topic was on web writing and writing for the web. The main t...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2016/02/26/technical-writing-and-writing-for-the-web/
The following are the workshop notes for Newspace’s Words and Pictures by Lorelle VanFossen in Portland, Oregon. The workshop covered the following: Writing for Audience and Search Engines: Vir...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2016/01/23/workshop-words-and-pictures/
Editorial writing consists of writing and publishing an article that takes a stance on a topic. The position must be supported with documentation, reference material, and quotes. Editorial writin...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2014/05/11/web-writing-the-editorial-article/
In “How people read online: Why you won’t finish this article” on Slate Magazine, author Farhad Manjoo explores the statistics on whether or not you will read to the bottom of his article. ...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2013/09/14/stats-the-analytics-of-reading-to-the-bottom-of-the-page/
Footnotes are often requested in my workshops and classes. I’ve published “Creating Footnotes in WordPress” explaining how to do this in WordPress on Lorelle on WordPress. Footnotes have be...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2013/02/26/tutorial-on-creating-footnotes-in-wordpress/
The following information are resources, tips, techniques, and instructions for starting and developing a Family History blog. These resources are for Lorelle’s family history blogging workshop...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2013/01/31/family-history-blogging-resources-and-tips/
Images, graphics, photographs, drawings, cartoons, badges…our websites are filled with imagery. This article addresses the techniques used by WordPress for aligning images and image sizing and ...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2013/01/22/how-to-add-images-in-your-post-content/
I talk about properly formed links or proper HTML anchor tags in all of my articles, workshops, and classes. This article serves as a tutorial and reference guide on the proper formation of HTML ...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2013/01/08/what-is-a-properly-formed-link/
Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen of PHDComics tackle the subject of open access for the publishing of scientific and research papers, helping us better understand how this all works, and publishin...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2012/10/27/the-open-access-publishing-explained-for-scientific-papers/
Most WordPress users spend their blogging life in the Visual Editor, the WYSIWYMG editor. Yes, it is the What You See is What You MIGHT Get editor. While WordPress does what it can to make the Vi...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2012/10/25/how-to-add-html-in-a-wordpress-blog-post/
Can’t think of anything to blog about? When choosing your blog topics, realize you could be blogging about this topic for years, coming up with new ideas all the time, sometimes daily. I recent...
1975. While that number might mean different things to you, like your birthday, an anniversary, graduation year, part of a lottery number – to me it represents a quota. Several years ago, a fan...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2012/10/14/what-you-must-know-about-writing-on-the-web/
Teaching web publishing with HTML, CSS, WordPress, etc., and working with clients, I long for the ability to just look at a web page or PDF and draw on it. Point out what works, what doesn’t, e...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2012/10/03/web-page-annotation-and-markup-on-live-web-pages/
What is a “call to action” on a site? Call to action in web design — and in user experience (UX) in particular — is a term used for elements in a web page that solicit an action from the ...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2012/09/25/what-is-a-website-call-to-action/
There are many ways to present a post or article on a web page. This tutorial will cover the basic formatting, styles, and structure. The structure of an article or content on a web page is the s...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2012/09/20/the-basic-structure-of-a-blog-post/
This tutorial from the HTML Fundamentals Class I taught at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, is a guide that will show you how to: View the source code of a web page. How to save a web page...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2012/09/08/tutorial-how-to-inspect-edit-and-save-a-web-page/
This is a tutorial from the HTML Fundamentals Class I taught at Clark College in Summer 2012. It applies to HTML and WordPress. There are five basic forms of links on a web page. External Links I...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2012/09/03/links-and-the-anchor-html-tag/
The granddaddy of all Lorem Ipsum services is Lorem Ipsum – Lipsum generator. Lorem ipsum has been used for hundreds of years to generate dummy content for prototypes, wireframes, and galleys. ...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2012/08/28/lorem-ipsum-resources-for-dummy-content/
Reprinted and expanded upon with author’s permission from How to Blog Part 11: Copyright and Citations on Blog Your Passion. There are two issues to cover as part of this ongoing How to Blog se...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2012/08/12/copyright-how-to-quote-and-cite-sources/
SportsBusiness Journal has one. So does eSchool Media Marketing, GeneaBloggers Genealogy Blog, SheKnows Magazines, and REALTOR® Magazine. Not only do they have one, they redo it every year. What...