Content! Content! Content!

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
In Chapter 1, there are several key messages.

1. People come to websites to look for something . They want information that:
(a) a question or helps them to complete a
(b) is easy to and easy to
(c) is accurate, , and credible

2. Good web writing:
(a) is like a started by a busy web user
(b) answers people's questions (througout your web content - not just in the FAQs)
(c) lets people and

3. Web users don't read much - even on information pages, they and before they
start to read. They want to read only enough to meet their needs. In the study reported by
Nielsen and Loranger, web users spent, on average, less than minutes before deciding to
leave a website.

4. Start with a test. Test ; test ; test on a small-scale, a little bit at a time.