A Halloween Primer on How to Avoid Resurrecting the Ghosts of Social Media Nightmares Past
It's Halloween. A night when all manner of creatures crawl in search of blood to terrorize your neighbourhood. It's a night when ghouls and ghosts…
Teaching People that it Should be Hard to Make Life Inaccessible
"It should be hard to make something inaccessible." That's really it, isn't it? You wouldn't build structures or create content that excludes people…
Measuring UX for Higher Ed Websites
Higher education institutions are a business just like any other. Each institution competes against the others in its category to sell education to…
How to Identify Yourself – Canada’s Anti-Spam Laws Simplified and Demystified
Are you who you say you are? Are you promising what you're delivering? Are you using the ol' bait-and-switch to get "consent" under false pretences…
How to Contribute to Drupal: Documentation
If you’re a developer, you have skills that the average bear looks up to -- often with awe and sometimes with genuine confusion. You don’t need to…
How to Choose the Right Font for Your Project
So, you need to pick a font. Surprisingly enough, this can be a difficult thing to do. The wrong font can turn the most serious of headlines into a…
Improving Site Performance: A New Hope For Fast Sites
A slow site has negative impacts on search engine optimization, can increase bounce rate, and reduce site conversions. Taking a surgical approach and…
Changing PCI Compliance Standards for eComm Retailers: What You Need to Know
Need to Know As of April 1, 2024, the PCI DSS 4.0 standards have become best practices for processing credit card transactions, with 51 new…
Online Content: What makes it great?
We’ve previously talked about your online content and how getting started is tough. Whether you’re writing for the web, social media or you’re writing…
The ABCs (and D) of AODA Compliance with a 2021 Deadline Approaching
It seemed like ages ago that I wrote the first of a four-part series on AODA compliance from a web perspective. This piece, published on March 20…