Resources for great content

Books, style guides and web sites

Any books by Robin Williams, teacher and author. Robin writes marvellous books on design and good writing, typography, Macs and Shakespeare. She is funny, wise and an inspiration. Her books look beautiful too.

Peachpit Press and The Shakespeare Papers

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White. A trenchant guide to good writing. (ISBN 0-88103-068-6). Based on American rather than British English. Oh well, nobody's perfect…

Fight the Fog, a concise, witty guide for people who write, commission or translate official documents. But useful for all writers. Produced by the EU Commission's translation service.

Carla Lattanzi's site has a wealth of advice on how to write – and how not to write – in Italian. Useful tips for printed material and web content.

Il mestiere di scrivere, by Luisa Carrada. Another rich Italian-language resource. Helpful glossary, and links to sites in English, French, Spanish…

Jakob Nielsen's site for web site design and usability.

Sardinia Region. An example of clean, consistent design (lovely colour scheme!).

Don't Make Me Think, an accessible book by usability expert Steve Krug. It does, by the way (make you think ...)