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/
This article supports my recent presentation at PDX WordPress Meetup titled “Organizing Your WordPress Site.” Please note that I’ve included articles from ClarkWP Magazine, the student run ...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2014/06/23/wordpress-site-structure-and-organization/
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/
If you live in the Salem, Oregon, area, don’t miss this special event and workshop. I’ll be leading a workshop in Salem, Oregon, specifically designed for writers and authors using WordPress....
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/
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/
I like quotes that make you think. We all need references that stop us in our tracks and make us challenge ourselves and our thinking. This is one of those moments. Take advantage of it. Continue...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2012/11/06/this-is-an-example-of-a-blockquote/
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/
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/
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/
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...
In January 2012, I started a year long campaign on Lorelle on WordPress called Prove It! I recently learned the true definition of the word “guru.” It means to lift someone up through knowled...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2012/02/07/2011-prove-it-campaign-prove-yourself-on-your-blog/
This is the H1 Heading This is an example of a sandbox post for testing WordPress Themes and web page designs to ensure every design detail within the content area of a Theme meets with your desi...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2012/01/17/example-of-a-sandbox-post-for-testing-wordpress-themes/
This is going around the web and it’s a powerful statement: I am responsible for what I say. I am not responsible for what you understand. It’s a simplified version of: I know that you believ...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2011/11/25/publishing-responsibilities-im-responsible-for-what-i-say/
Rule Number One: Ask first, they might say yes. If it is on the web, it isn’t free. If it is on the web, it could be free. Everything on the web was created by someone. It took hard work. … C...
https://lorelleteaches.com/2011/11/13/plagarism-copyright-and-fair-use/