Writing by Peter Hilton

My Meta-Content

Do not read this - go and find your own favourite web sites!

useful web applications

reading

useful web applications (technology)

useful web resources

odd

backlinks

people

Web page production

Putting web page design in context: The Killer of Websites; Differences Between Print Design and Web Design; The Difference Between Web Design and GUI Design
Putting HTML in context: We Have Chosen Shame and Will Get War; Shame and War Revisited
How to code HTML the Right Way: WDG Style guide for online hypertext; WDG Standards for HTML Authoring for the World Wide Web; Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines; The WDVL Style Guide
Why changing the standard link colours is wrong: Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
Why frames are bad and style sheets are good: Why Frames Suck (Most of the Time); Style Sheets vs. Frames as Web Extensions
Why coding for a certain browser is wrong: Campaign for a Non-Browser Specific WWW
Why changing the text size is wrong: Marginalia of Web Design; What's wrong with the FONT element?
Why constantly running animation is wrong: Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
How to write for the Web: Be Succinct! (Writing for the Web); Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines; Marginalia of Web Design
Why the Georgia and Verdana fonts are a Good Thing: Introducing Georgia & Verdana
The danger of 'advanced' web technologies: From Page to Application

Web site production

Putting web site production in context: It's Software, Stupid; Hardware, Software, and Infoware
Why you should never change a URL: Cool URIs don't change; Things I learned the Hard Way; Web Pages Must Live Forever
Choosing URLs: URL as UI; A Standard for Site Organization
How not to manage a corporate web site: Top Ten Mistakes of Web Management
Statistics: Why web usage statistics are (worse than) meaningless

Web culture and technology

Tools: The Tyranny of the Page: Continued Lack of Decent Navigation Support in Version 4 Browsers
How businesses can 'get it': The Cluetrain Manifesto; Want Human-Centered Development? Reorganize the Company
Personalisation: Whose "My" Is It Anyway?

GUI design

Fitts's law: A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts
Official user-interface standards: Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines; The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design (The Windows User Experience); IBM HCI Guidelines; Mac OS 8 Human Interface Guidelines

Good ideas

Content publishing

Content Syndication and Brand Protection

Mining the GeoCitizens

Why I'm not a Writer

The big picture

OpenSource: Ten Myths about Open Source Software; Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution; The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Perl: Ten Perl Myths