I'm a web designer. Have I told you that before? Well there you have it. All day, every day, I look at websites. I could go off on a tangent here about blogs and feed readers and pretty designs and ugly designs, but we'll shelve that to talk about content.

In order to create a website of any value, you need content. People come to your site for a reason. Therefore, it (almost) goes without saying that at some point in the web design process, we're gonna need some text, some pictures – something to fill your pages.

Clients are baffled by this. They somehow get stuck on the fact that they actually need to contribute to their site. It's a novel concept, right?

Eventually, they get their poop in a group and send content. It might be great; it might suck. At that point, it doesn't really matter. It's the client's choice, and my job is only to get it in there and make it accessible.

Every so often, I get an email that has the subject, "Web Page Verbage."

First off – I hate "web page." All the time, people say, "Oh, do you have a web page?" More often than not, you have a website, not just one page, but that's neither here nor there.

No, what drives me up the freaking walls is the word "verbage." Why, you ask? Because it's not a word! It's verbiage. You can say it "ver-bee-ij" or "ver-bij" – whatever floats your boat is fine with me, but for the love of green pastures, can we please spell it right?!

I've gotten "verbage" so many times, I started to think I was wrong, so I asked Merriam, but nope – it's verbiage.

Alert the presses. Release a PSA. Do something. Just spell it right.