Over at MediaBistro, the funny ha-ha writer (and Five Easy Questions star) Claire Zulkey published the best post I've ever read about the tools freelance writers need to land a job writing web content.
Read it, memorize it, and then apply it. Between my day job and this job, I'm HTML-ing for my bread and butter, and you can too, if you follow her links. Check it out:
"As with any job, though, the more you know the more valuable you are, so if you're tech-savvy, go ahead and make the most of it. If you want to learn more about various Web technologies, including HTML, XML, AJAX, SQL, and Javascript, check out the free tutorials at w3schools.com and the blog Stopdesign. "If you're interested in learning about usability (how users use Websites; a huge topic), go to Jakob Nielsen's site and read any of his books, all of them bibles of Web usability."
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