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The Non-Written Disciplines of Writing: Editing

an Article written by Christopher Butler on October 18, 2010

...many people swear by printing out drafts, as reading from the page tends to make mistakes and issues of flow much easier to identify. The more complex kind of editing is far less mechanical and involves the shaping of your...

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The Non-Written Disciplines of Writing: Reading

an Article written by Christopher Butler on September 24, 2010

...simple ratio, something like “for every page you write, you should read five,” but I’m sure that whatever I came up with would be a gross underestimation. So try this: make reading part of your lifestyle. Work at it until...

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How to Create Salesforce List Views

an Article published on August 13, 2014

...view looks. You can sort by different columns (ascending or descending) by clicking the column name once or twice. You can choose how many records to display on the page. If you are sorting on a column with text, an...

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Found Quotes

an Article written by Christopher Butler on August 11, 2011

...page slide show: tsunami, tornado, calving iceberg. We might try on the big picture for a moment, imagining the terms of physical existence as they were a hundred years ago for the average person, and comparing these with the present....

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Planning for a Rebuild

an Article written by Christopher Butler on January 7, 2013

...using your site, as well as properly transition the right visitors into customers, you are missing out. And just so we’re clear, “understanding” and “transitioning” aren’t just hand-wave-ese for standard session data analytics — like visits, page views, conversions, and...

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Future Daydream

an Article written by Christopher Butler on January 10, 2012

...by John Napier in his book Hands. Perhaps so. But as long as screens are central to our interaction with the world, we’ll likely need to add a few to our repertoire. Undoubtedly, page turning was a tricky leap for...

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The Art of Letterpress

an Article published on February 18, 2010

...letterforms to create a printed page.  There are still a few letterpress-age terms that survive today such as kerning, leading, uppercase and lowercase. While I appreciate the convenience and speed of digital typesetting, I think it’s important to appreciate the...

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Quality Assurance For Developers

an Article written by Dave Mello on February 15, 2010

...render correctly with no blatant braking/alignment issues. If an image is going to be a banner graphic at the top of the page, make it work that way. Holding text can be made contextual by simply adding the description of...

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Creativity and Efficiency in Web Writing

an Article published on January 19, 2010

...not easily controlled. It triggers reactions that depend on the reader’s own feelings and experiences, rather than just the facts on the page; it asks to be unpacked in ways that can send the reader’s thinking off in other directions....

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My Love-Hate Relationship with Email

an Article published on December 10, 2009

...I can answer and get on with my day. The frustratingly best emails are the ones that feel like I opened up a James Joyce novel to a random page and started reading. I’m sure this email has some context...

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