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Writing for the Web: Resources and Examples
Related Links
Web training home
Evaluation form
Action development process (writing regulations) training (for EPA employees only; on EPA's intranet)
Resources
Within epa.gov
Outside of epa.gov 
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's Making Data Meaningful: A guide to writing stories about numbers
- Gerry McGovern on Web Writing
- Jakob Nielsen on Writing for the Web
- PlainLanguage.gov
- Quality Web Content: Words that Work
- Sun Microsystems' Writing for the Web site
- Usability.gov
- User Interface Engineering's article on personas
Examples within epa.gov
- Mercury Web site, Information for
Health Care Providers page shows:
- one way to incorporate audience-based pages into your site (see yellow and red tabs);
- how to organize a page that is basically a long list of links;
- use of anchors to create a table of contents near the top of the page, so that viewers immediately understand the structure of the page; and
- rich descriptions next to the link text, so that viewers really understand what information they will see when they click on a link.
- The first links on the mercury Web site, International Actions page are good examples of content-rich link text: they give the type of file, the type of content (report, brochure, etc.), and the precise subject of the linked information.
- CADDIS home page is an example of great captioning for graphics.
- OPA What We Look For page shows how well information can be organized on the page by using anchors to create a table of contents, and by creating bullets whenever possible.
- The Proposed Revisions to the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Rule page shows how complex textual information can be presented in an if-then table.
- Good all-around sites: