If you’ve looked around the Onlineability site then you’ll hopefully have got a feel for our writing and design ethos, and some of the things we think work particularly well in the online medium.

These links are an opportunity to explore some of those issues further. We’d like to know what you think of them, or if there are any other sites you think we’d enjoy. So if you have something to say then drop us a line.

Writing well

The Plain English Campaign

What we can all aspire to: http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/

Collins Language site

Check your spelling and more: http://www.collinslanguage.com/

BBC News Magazine: Are you going forward? Then stop now

A humorous look at common jargon words to avoid: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7453584.stm

UrbanDictionary.com

Edited by users: decipher the latest slang expressions: http://www.urbandictionary.com

Promoting your site

Feedburner.com: Feeds 101

Understand how feeds and syndication work: http://www.feedburner.com

Web standards and CSS

How stuff works: CSS

An easy(ish)-to-follow video: http://videos.howstuffworks.com/

CSS Zen Garden

Demonstrating CSS design principles, beautifully: http://www.csszengarden.com

Stylegala.com

Web design and standards: http://stylegala.com/archive/index.html

CSSBeauty.com

A database of well-designed CSS sites: http://www.cssbeauty.com

A List Apart

Web content, web standards, best practice: http://www.alistapart.com

The Web Standards Project

Simple, affordable access to web technologies for all: http://www.webstandards.org/

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Leading the web to its full potential: http://www.w3.org/

Software for download

Mozilla.com

Download free, effective web software: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

Google Documents

Collaborate online and discuss your work with other Google users: http://docs.google.com

Open Office

Can’t or won’t use MS Office? Try this: http://www.openoffice.org/index.html

Scribd.com

Publish yourself and share your documents online for free: http://www.scribd.com

Wordpress

Host your own blog or website with Wordpress: http://www.wordpress.org

Using themes with Wordpress

Some advice on getting the look you want: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes

Open Source Initiative

Education and advocacy on the benefits of open source: http://www.opensource.org/

For creative people

Creative Commons

Safely share and distribute your creative work: http://creativecommons.org/

Open Rights Group

Fighting for the UK’s digital civil rights: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/

UK photographers’ rights

Increasingly under threat, check your rights here: http://www.sirimo.co.uk/ukpr.php

I’m a photographer not a terrorist

A great photographers’ rights campaign: http://photographernotaterrorist.org/

Page Four creative writing software

Designed specifically for writers – trial version available free: http://www.softwareforwriting.com/pagefour.html

National Novel Writing Month

Force out your masterwork in one frantic, fun-filled month: http://www.nanowrimo.org