Fellow Clio Bloggers,
It wasn’t until late last semester that I saw how much junk formatting was being thrown into my blog posts when I cut and pasted Word.doc text. Lately I’ve been copying my test into wordpad to ”launder” out the formatting, but I then have to replace a bunch of questionmarks for quotation marks, etc. If I’m not thrilled about just typing straight into my blog, is there an easier way??
Bill
Solution (many thanks to Tad!): check out the word document cleaner at: http://textism.com/wordcleaner/index.html
It scrubs the code out, but keeps the good stuff. The free version is limited to 20kb per document.
Luke Wroblewski’s online chapter “Who Are You” makes a great case on the importance of form online. On the positive side, he makes convincing points on color, type, and visual elements. Unfortunately, the wide-format side-by-side pages in his .pdf chapter prove his points in an extremely irritating manner.
The .pdf is an image of the chapter in his book Site-seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability, but deserves to be translated into a web page for online viewing (the book is about web usability–right?) Wroblewski’s points are made by the irritating requirement to slide left and right to read each page, or to reduce them so the page is fully visible but the type is tiny and hard to read.
By the end of the chapter, I agreed that layout, color, type, and images are important, and I wished for better! As for as personality, hmmm, what does it say if the author is preaching about web usability but doesn’t make his sample product web-friendly?
