A reader asks, Technical writing is a field that I’ve been pursuing and about to complete a certification. My question, how important or valuable would also pursuing a web design certificate for a technical writer? The certificate in web design? Not necessary. But a working knowledge of HTML and CSS? Yes, critical, because everything is moving (or already moved about 10 years ago) to the … more »

I integrated a WordPress blog into another website this weekend. The original site, pictured below, was http://tamarabonet.com. Here’s the WordPress blog I customized (http://tamarabonet.com/blog) to look identical to the existing site: This is my third blog design in which I ported over an existing html site into a WordPress theme. I’m getting better at it, but it still takes me a full day to do … more »

Watch what happens when you copy and paste two sentences from Word into a new blog post. [kml_flashembed movie="http://idratherbewriting.com/jing/wordcodebloat.swf" height="600" width="500" /]