Tools of the Trade

Over the years writers have developed a number of tools to help them in their daily lives. Not surprizingly, most of these are in book form. However, there are a number of useful dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries, translators and other tools available over the WWW. There are also a huge variety of tools now available to writers, artists and designers to help them to produce computer-mediated texts. The sample discussed on this page are the tools that I use or have used (which is some kind of recommendation) to develop texts on the world wide web. However, before diving in at the technological deep-end it is worth noting that it is possible to produce your first web pages without a huge of amount of expensive software, time and trouble. It is also worth noting that a good website is an investment. Freelance Writer, Robert McGarvey, writing in Freelance Success notes how his website brought him several thousand dollars worth of business from just one editor (click here to read this article).

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