Flash and Your Target Audience
In a recent blog we discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using images or Flash as part of your website’s navigation structure. SEO Search…
Digital U for a Digital You 301 – What Do You Want?
So we’ve addressed who your customers actually are; and we’ve discussed who you are. Now the key question becomes, What Do You Want? More business. OK…
Writing the Foundations of a Drupal/Islandora Partnership - Part One of an Interview with Susan Brown
Digital Echidna has been working with a number of partners on a project called the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC), a project that…
New Year - Hope for the New Year, Built Upon the Good of 2020
Well. That was a heck of a 2020, hasn’t it? And while it may be tempting to just rush into 2021 and try to put the past year behind us, I think that’d…
How to satisfy users and internal stakeholders
One of the biggest challenges we face in projects is balancing the needs of the users with those of internal stakeholders. In an ideal world, we’d…
Even More Lessons From the Fringes
When you’re communicating with anyone -- clients, potential customers, employees, or the general public -- trust is the strongest currency you can…
Ensuring Your Accordion Is In Tune With Your Audience, Content
I’m half French Canadian. I married into a family heavy on Newfoundlanders. And I work in the digital field, with a heavy focus on web design…
Welcome to the Hallway Track, A New Approach to Conferences
I have been in customer service and sales for 20 years, 10 of those at Digital Echidna. In this time I have been to my share of conferences and…
On The Road With Support Manager, Jon Clemens
One of the perks of working in technology, is that it lends so many tools that allows us to connect with our colleagues and clients from anywhere in…
Accessibility Can’t Just be Lip Service; Words Must Have Weight
They’re nice words -- but you may hear an echo if you say them because too often they ring hollow in our society. Today is the International Day of…