Test Your Vocabulary

How good is your vocabulary?
Check out the free online vocabulary tests and exercises at:
http://www.wordsandtools.com/vocdemo/gzram3.html
 

Free Tool to Index Programs in your Start Menu

Josh Karlin has released a great new (and FREE) program that indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes! 

Launchy indexes files in locations other than your start menu.
Here are some tips that we use and recommend.
 Index your Bookmarks & Folders

Directory: C:\Documents and Settings\user\Favorites
File Type: .url

Index [...]

Basic Writing Tips – Some Controversial, All Correct

David Clapham  
As a previous article (“Making Better Word Choices – 4 Examples”) explained, writers can take steps to prevent simple, and common, errors from degrading their writing. Five areas of writing that cause authors problems are discussed in this article.
Split Infinitives
First let us exam the famously frowned upon split infinitive. Maybe some readers do not [...]

Your Spellchecker Can Catch Punctuation Mistakes

Jan Kovarik
Even though you should never only rely on your spellchecker to find mistakes in your document, you can make the most of your spellchecker by changing the settings.
It isn't as scary as it sounds and once you learn where these settings are, you can change them as often as you need to for whatever [...]

Use Textpad for Easy Ezine and Web Site Submissions

When you create your articles in TextPad format, something like Notepad, but much more versatile, you will have them in 65 characters across wrapped, just the right format. Then, when you are ready to submit your articles to web sites, you simply copy and paste the parts of the article into the web site you [...]

Eight Ways To Write Better Instantly

Is it possible to improve your writing instantly? The answer, happily, is “yes.”
While researching a book on famous speeches and essays, I found eight easily correctable mistakes writers often make. Here they are…and how to correct them instantly.
1. UNFOCUSED SUBJECT – Focus on a single theme only. Every sentence and paragraph should reinforce that topic.
2. [...]

The Psychology of Color in Web Design

Persons engaged in website design, here’s a scoop for you! Would you just like to know that by understanding the basics of cognitive psychology around color and patterns, we could further improve our Web design!
Designing a Web site does not only concentrate on making web pages of a certain site interesting and impressive. This skill [...]

How to Optimize PDF Files for Web Sites

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the defacto file format for presenting device-independent documents on and off the Web. While PDFs have become quite popular on the Web, many PDFs used in web sites are designed for high quality print output and are not optimized for the Web.
Even PDFs designed for Web use can have a [...]