There are many decisions to be made when building an archive. These decisions have often been made by individuals in positions of privilege or by institutions themselves. This means that archives have often been used to perpetuate misinformation or selective information in the name of crafting historical narratives that maintain current power structures. This potential…
Perhaps the most significant piece of misinformation generated by archives is the impression of their own authority.
At the University of California, LA, Johanna Drucker works as a professor of Bibliographical Studies. She is also the author of Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production.
Humans are meaning-making machines with an impulse to organize. Today we code paragraph breaks into our web pages. In the medieval period they rubricated signified paragraph breaks with colour-shifts.
An embed card is a hyperlink with bonus information and is one way to pitch to a person why they should visit your web page.
Sometimes, after we publish an article, we have to make edits. It happens. And sometimes these edits might affect the feature image, the title, or the excerpt. The challenge occurs if the article has already been shared to social media channels.
In June I had the opportunity to attend “Lesbian Liberation Across Media.” It was a film screening put on collaboratively by queer archives and media projects in Canada, and hosted by some of my personal academic heroes. One central theme from this screening was control over media. But equally important were the themes of learning…
These seven media projects are embracing this new reality and bucking the status quo. They give me hope that there is a future for writers and journalists in Canada, one that doesn’t look the same as it did fifty years ago, but which could thrive just as much, and be a lot more inclusive.
Content is supreme, be it text or image. An image can be riveting, but a contextualized image can capture more than passing interest. It can entice someone into seeking a deeper understanding of your work. And you are the expert on your content.
Deep linking from peripheral content to core content facilitates a web of interconnection beyond the mere sharing of space on a platform…
Making hyperlinks is a foundational skill in web publishing. Links have everything to do with usability, accessibility, search engine optimization, and readability. Links should be simple and helpful to your users. The text in links should be meaningful; avoid writing “click here”. Links should be easily seen and easy to interact with. There shouldn’t be…
Headings are like a table of contents in your pages and posts. They provide both visual and behind the scenes structure to your content. To provide this meaningful structure, though, your headings need to be properly employed…
Not everyone drafts their content directly in their web publishing content manager. Authors sometimes draft their content in Word documents, Google Docs or some other software. When this content gets hastily copied and pasted into a content management system (CMS) like SquareSpace or WordPress, funky things can happen. Cruft happens Pretty much all text on…
Manual excerpts are an important part of your articles. They work mostly as short summaries. And if you get good at writing them, they will help your website…
Alternative text is necessary for good publishing. Images on a website can be really important content. They give context, shape meaning, and move readers. It is really important that images…
Having good passcode habits is an important aspect of online security. And it’s something we all need to work at. The Better Business Bureau has announced the fourth annual National Pass**** Day and we think it’s a good idea. March 15th is a good day to reflect on your passphrase habits. Here are the bureau’s…
Web first publishing means publishing your carefully crafted content to your website first. We recommend it nine times out of ten…
Feature images can be beautiful, improve reach and impact, and give meaning, improve clickiness, and add whimsy. But I don’t want it to be an obstacle to publishing…
Some webpages change very little. Others, like Career pages, change more regularly. Here is how we recommend to manage this content…
Lately I’ve found myself advocating for blogging and microblogging. Microblogging is a loose term. Sometimes it means posts that don’t have titles and other features of full-fledged articles…
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