You’ve decided you need a website. You’ve briefed a whizz-bang designer and you’ve found yourself agreeing to write the copy. It can’t be that difficult right? Wrong! Writing successful website copy can be tough. But here are a few tips to get you started. Who’s calling? Have a clear idea of who will be visiting your website. Will they already know about your...
Named after the Oxford University Press where it was first used, the Oxford comma - a comma before the word and - is often avoided in British English but used in the US. For example: In the US they write: Red, white, and blue. In the UK we write: Red, white and blue. For some reason, us Brits often feel quite weird...
Imagine yourself at a party; glass of warm punch in one hand, cold sausage roll in the other. And you're trapped with the party bore. He's giving you a speech about his latest achievements; the speed of his car; his golf handicap; and his plans for world domination. You can't get a word in edgeways and he doesn't ask you...
The use of it's and its seem to get a lot of people confused. I even saw this on a website recently - I swear this is true - 'i'ts very good!' Nope. It's very bad. So this is the easiest way to remember: It's is a contraction of it is. So It's (it is) a nice day. It's (it is) a...
