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.

Oh, and the cool word visualisation software to make the images you’ll see around the site is called Wordle and you can try it for yourself here.

Writing well

The Plain English Campaign

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

Oxford World of Words

Check your spelling and more: “http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/worldofwords

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

CSS Zen Garden

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

CSSBeauty.com

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

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/

Information Architecture

Alertbox newsletter

Bi-weekly column by usability expert Dr Jakob Nielsen: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/

Journal of Information Architecture

An international peer-reviewed scholarly journal: http://journalofia.org/

Boxes and Arrows

The practice, innovation, and discussion of design, including IA: http://www.boxesandarrows.com

The Information Architecture Institute Library

A great collection of resources: http://iainstitute.org/en/learn/library.php

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