The Edmonton Journals online article about snowmobiles is a classic example of shovel ware. While the paragraphs are small there are no subheadings throughout the entire article. It is a perfectly written article for the paper, but is has no stand out words, no in article links, and nothing to really help with scanability.
However, the text does match the rest of the website, and have provided some really good pictures that compliment the story quite well, but that's about it as far as writing for web goes.
Your picture doesn't relate to the story; its just a generalization of when things fail in life. I could point out that the Russian reactor in Chernobyl failed, but posting a picture of an irradiated tundra doesn't really relate to web editing, now does it?
ReplyDeleteChernobyl isn't on tundra. It's in a temperate zone.
ReplyDeleteWell I'm sure there are some parts of the tundra that are irradiated; I mean, it was a pretty big fail.
ReplyDelete