AI in Web Development Discovery
Written by Mel Tangonan Introduction AI has surged in popularity the past few years, with everyone eager to hop on the wave and see if it really is a big deal for the future of work. It’s become the...
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Accessibility Best Practices: 10 Tips to Keep Your Website on Track
Most websites today use a content management system (CMS) — WordPress, Drupal, or a proprietary system — which makes it easy to provide the structure for an accessible website. The templating system keeps items like the header, footer, navigation,...
The Wonderful World of WordPress Page Builders
One of the key elements of a Content Management System (CMS) is the templating layer. Templates are the guardrails to keeping a website looking consistent and on-brand. However, a shortcoming of templating is that every site visual must be...
Part 3: Customizing Your Content Matrix Can Help You Work Smarter, Not Harder. Here’s How.
In Part 3 of this three-part series, Katy identifies the ways in which you can customize your content matrix to align with project requirements, best practices, and why the extra effort is totally worth it. The tools with which...
Part 2: Your Total Content Makeover Needs a Content Matrix. Here’s Why.
In Part 2 of this three-part series, Katy shares best practices for creating a content migration tracking tool (matrix-style) after deciding a total content makeover is the right approach for you. To circle back to our original example, this...
Part 1: Your Site Migration Needs a Total Content Makeover. Here’s Why.
In Part 1 of this three-part series, Katy discusses how to determine when your website migration project requires a more in-depth content clean-up versus migrating content “as-is.” If you’ve ever remodeled a room in your home, you can attest...
The Magic of Design
What is visual design? Visual design is best known as a website or application’s aesthetic appeal. Like magicians, who know when and how to leverage our gaps in perception, designers strategically use things like color, fonts, and layouts to...
The Importance of Stakeholder Meetings
The stakeholders of an organization have a vested interest in all of the business’s decisions. When making updates to primary assets, such as an organization’s website, the involvement of stakeholders can make or break your project. In order to...
When Your Canvas Becomes Thin Air: Maintaining Collaboration During Quarantine
A Zoom meeting will never replace an in-person design session. A virtual whiteboard will never replace the experience of working through ideas with a client on a physical medium. Screens will never replace the ability to convey emotion for...
Mastering WFH: Maintaining Productivity While Remote
I keep having the feeling of déjà vu. The working from home, balancing work and life, who’s-working-in-the-home-office-now situation that so many of us find ourselves in – I’ve been here before. Not for an extended period of time, and...