http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/content/ All about writing for the Web, creating good content, grammar tips, resources, and related about content and writing. en-us Content Copyright 2000-2008 Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns. All rights reserved. Shirley Kaiser 2008-03-12T12:04:09-08:00 720 daily 2 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://brainstormsandraves.com/xml/brainstorms88.gif http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/content/ 88 31 All about writing for the Web, creating good content, grammar tips, resources, and related about content and writing. In my previous post I stated that I had 'no current plans' to divulge the person behind my copyright infringement example. Although this person removed the content, images, and HTML that he took without permission from my websitetips.com site (only after I took drastic measures), he continues to add new content to his weblog that is copyrighted from other websites. Today's post is a follow-up to my previous post, Respecting Copyrights Online. (1200 words, 22 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2008/03/12/copyright2/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2008/03/12/copyright2/ Shirley Kaiser 2008-03-12T12:04:09 Despite how much I see this, I'm still amazed at the volume of people taking copyrighted content, images, and other works online to use at their own sites, to pass off as their own, to earn income with AdSense or other ad programs, to even sell to their own clients, and whatever else. Like many others, I have also had my copyrighted work taken by others. So, how do you know if something is OK or not to use at your own website? And what can you do about people infringing on your copyrighted materials? Today's post goes into copyright infringement and includes helpful resources for more information. (1263 words, 8 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2008/03/03/copyright/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2008/03/03/copyright/ Shirley Kaiser 2008-03-03T19:38:33 After sending off a more formal letter Friday with copies to upstream providers I finally got positive results from the company that stole my Websitetips.com content, images, and HTML. They removed my content, images, and HTML from their servers, and I even got an apology. I was also told that the employee responsible was fired. (233 words, 2 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/09/27/stealing_followup/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/09/27/stealing_followup/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-09-27T18:10:01 There are so many new sites, articles, helpful CSS tools, and fun and fascinating things to read or watch. Today's Feast highlights a few of my favorites for the past couple of weeks. (506 words, 16 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/09/26/friday_feast_60/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/09/26/friday_feast_60/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-09-26T18:39:58 One of the things that hits me the wrong way is to continue to find people blatantly stealing website designs, content, and anything else. Many of us have had our hard work and efforts stolen, unfortunately. The latest blatant stealing of my content and images is at Cheetah Solutions. They've posted ALL of my WebsiteTips.com Resources on the Web section totaling over 2,400 annotated resources and over six years of my hard work and countless thousands of hours of research, cloaking it in their own design and passing it off as their own work. This blatant thievery and misrepresenting themselves to their clients and anyone else makes me more than a little angry. (341 words, 11 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/09/25/stealing/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/09/25/stealing/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-09-25T21:00:45 Writing Better Web Page Titles by Keith Robinson provides some helpful tips about writing good titles. Check out more by Keith at his site, too, as you?ll find plenty of interesting posts and articles. For more on titles, visit my earlier post Titles? What Titles? with links to other helpful articles and tips about titles, grammar, and writing for the Web. The Content category has more on content and writing for the Web, too. (posted August 25, 2003 - 8am) (75 words, 3 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/08/25/tips_for_better_titles/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/08/25/tips_for_better_titles/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-08-25T08:03:59 Download the BBC News Styleguide for some helpful tips on writing better. Although written with journalists in mind, this styleguide can help the rest of us, too, of course. (74 words, 2 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/08/20/bbc_news_styleguide/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/08/20/bbc_news_styleguide/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-08-20T16:22:37 The first rate book on CSS, Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, previously published by Glasshaus, will now be published by Apress and is going to have a second edition to be published later this year. Congratulations to authors Owen Briggs, Steve Champeon, Eric Costello, Matthew Patterson, and the addition of Dave Shea doing a case study on a CSS redo of his mezzoblue website. I'm especially thrilled to see this terrific book continue with a second edition. I was honored to have been a tech reviewer for the first edition, which gave me an insider's view to the... (173 words, 14 links, 1 image) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/08/11/edition_2_separating_content_from_presentation/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/08/11/edition_2_separating_content_from_presentation/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-08-11T09:13:00 Today's Friday Feast covers a fun web design competition, a beautiful photography competition site, rants and raves about HTML editing tools, adventures in prototyping, top-notch design sites, regular expressions, and a few of my own brainstorms, rants, and raves. (1204 words, 43 links, 2 images) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/08/01/friday_feast_54/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/08/01/friday_feast_54/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-08-01T18:50:27 How do we go about writing for weblogs? How can we enrich our relationships with our readers? How can we improve on the comments capability at our sites? Dave Pollard wrote his thoughts about this, The Blogging Process. Fascinating reading, including an interesting flowchart and comments. (84 words, 1 link) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/07/31/the_process_of_blogging/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2003/07/31/the_process_of_blogging/ Shirley Kaiser 2003-07-31T18:49:27