Originally created by Dan Bricklin of Trellix Corporation, www.gooddocuments.com is a website that was developed as a resource for providing businesses with the guidlines for creating good documents that are easy to read in a web based format. The site provides information to make your web site affective for your "intranet". This site focuses more on proper web based format to use in documents rather than making your website eye catching and entertaining.

The bottom line of this website is to show users how to develop documents that are more adaptive to the newest technology that is available for communicating information. This site stresses the fact that there are new mediums for delivering key message points and each of these new mediums requires its own style and form for publishing with electronic media.

No more is writing for a browser like writing for paper or other types of print (http://www.gooddocuments.com/homepage/about.htm/). The writings that are currently being done in word processors are not currently capable of being translated into effective web based or electronic formats. Current electronic formats often make the reader feel disconnected from the reading and they lack the physical sense of touch and turning of the page, often times causing readers to print off materials.

In order to over come this, www.gooddocuments was created to help writers learn how to write with the correct style and form for electronic documents.

Personal Opinion: The general idea behind this site is very important as we have all had web based documents that we have tried to read on the computer screen but simply can't do it. Instead we waste time and paper by printing off something that could easily be read on the screen if only the writers used the correct techniques. Hopefully with further exploration of this site and with more writers using this site we will one day be able to develop the technology and the formats to write with the electronic reader in mind.