Michael Gowan posts

What We Learned Migrating Over 5,000 Pages, Part Two

Last year we helped our clients move more than 5,000 pages from one content management system to another. We moved each page manually — and learned a lot about best practices and pitfalls. I previously talked about how important planning is in this process. Coming out...
Writing for Accessibility

Writing for Accessibility

In making the conference rounds this year, we’ve noticed a lot of talk about making digital content accessible for people with all kinds of abilities and disabilities. The good news for content writers and editors is that a lot of making content accessible for screen...

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Keeping a Style Guide Alive

Keeping a Style Guide Alive

Whether it’s 200 pages or two pages, most organizations have some kind of style guide. A style guide sets the standards for content—whether presented online or offline—and defines the rules and guidelines for ensuring consistency across all content. It usually...

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Best of Intentions

Best of Intentions

I’ve written before about keeping the content experience clean and lean, and after every redesign project I work on, my feelings about it get stronger. (If you’re one of my kids who’s around when I start sighing and throwing my hands up, you might even say I get a...

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Keeping it Clean and Lean

Keeping it Clean and Lean

We work with many of our clients on a long-term basis – and something that comes up often is the request to add new pages to a site. This isn’t inherently bad – there are a lot of solid reasons for creating new pages. However, far too often a request for a new page...

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Asking the Right Questions

Asking the Right Questions

A key to a successful content project is being prepared before you begin creating anything. That means you need to ask the right questions well ahead of any content work. While the specific questions will change based on the project, here are some questions that are...

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