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Do you spend money on a product if the presentation looks unprofessional? Case in point: As my husband and I approached a small family restaurant, I spotted two hand-scrawled signs in the window: Help Wanted. Cook Wanted.

Warning signals went off, but hunger prevailed. Once inside, we discovered that everything operated at the pace of [...]

Confused about the differences between online content and online copy? Join the crowd. Merriam-Webster’s* defines content as “the principal substance (as written matter, illustrations, or music) offered by a World Wide Web site.” The Web Content Style Guide (McGovern, et al.), says that content is knowledge that’s been formally produced into media (text, graphics, video, [...]

A brief look at the world of disabilities
Judy Vorfeld
Quiet battles are being fought, almost daily by parents advocating for their children with special needs. I see this during my daily activities in support of the disability community. I am a board member for Arizona Center for Disability Law, webmaster for 4 Paws for Ability [...]

Have you ever seen people get into a heated argument over the right use of the words “lay” and “lie”? It happens.
LAY is a verb meaning “to put” or “to place,” and needs an object to complete its meaning. (Lay, laid, laying.)

Examples
She lay the gift basket on the coffee table.
She had laid several gift baskets [...]

I recently started a post on this subject at my Webgrammar social networking site. Here is another wonderful response from writer, poet, educator, editor, and more.
Guest post by Holly Jahangiri
It will make me very sad to see them go.
I like to literally curl up with a good book - and not worry about the batteries [...]

I recently started a post on this subject at my Webgrammar social networking site. Here is one response, with more to come.
Guest post by Angela Allen
I think books are on their way out, and it makes me sad. I think there will always be books, but they will fall into two categories — the disposable [...]

What is a library? It is ideas. A town without a library is like a baseball team that never practices…Libraries house ideas, as abundant as lemons on a well-watered tree but with all the fruits of the world in one small plot of land.