Comments on: Help Your Readers Hang On To Every Word

By: Wholesale Printing

Wholesale Printing — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:11:02 +0000

Good thing I don't use big words too often. Wait… is that a good thing or a bad thing? lol.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

By: Debbie Harbeson

Debbie Harbeson — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:18:10 +0000

Techandlife,

Hey, I really appreciate your efforts in trying to show us the code for abbr

I was able to get the information and you're right, it could work that way if someone wanted to do that. Thanks again for helping out.

By: BloggerDaily

BloggerDaily — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:55:07 +0000

I got your points!

It made me realized about my mistakes. I did some complicated words and some readers asked me – "Hey, can you explain more on this?"

Words are important when we're trying to communicate with the readers. Complicated words will kill their passion to read.

Thanks for the article =D

By: techandlife

techandlife — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:42:38 +0000

Yup as I thought, completely impossible. Everything converted to code. Really annoying! Just use the abbr title tag as shown in the header of the feedback form. There's an explanation for the tag here: http://www.instantfundas.com/2009/02/5-obscure-ht...

By: techandlife

techandlife — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:38:37 +0000

Okay, my example above didn't show correctly as my deliberate misspelling of abbr was corrected and I can't edit the comment. I'll explain the tag you use. It's actually shown in the header section of this comment form.

Start with Then add the text you want to display, in this case HTML. Finally, close with the code

(If the above is converted to code this time I'll give up!)

By: techandlife

techandlife — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:22:44 +0000

Great post! You've made the point very well.

I don't know about code to automatically highlight specific words in a post every time they are used but there is an HTML tag which is mainly used for describing acronyms and abbreviations when you hover your mouse over them. For example:

HTML

(I've had to misspell the first word to prevent the tag from being translated into code. The first word should be abbr not abb)

In this case, when you hover over the text HTML, a tooltip will appear with the text 'HyperText Markup Language', hopefully as shown below:

HTML

I'm sure this could easily be used to explain definitions as well.

By: Not John Chow

Not John Chow — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:29:16 +0000

I find that I need to use words that are understandable to the majority of my audience.

By: I Make Thousands of

I Make Thousands of — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:20:11 +0000

Hey, great post, really well written. You should write more about this. I'll definitely be subscribing.

By: Jeremiah Hoyet

Jeremiah Hoyet — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:32:04 +0000

Very good point! I do this all the time in my writing and don't realize it at all unless someone asks me what something means. I've actually been thinking about adding a "Blogging Vocabulary List" to my blog for readers who don't know what a term might mean.