Saying Goodbye Shouldn't be Hard -- Canada's Anti-Spam Laws Simplified and Demystified
In real life, goodbyes are often hard. In the digital world, they should be made as easy as possible. Over the past week we've looked at the Canadian…
Website Design versus Function
When creating or revamping a website both the design elements and overall function of the site are important. Is there a magic ratio of the two…
Catchy Copy? It's a Numbers Game
This blog is by no means political, but it can be inspired by politics. Why? Because at its root successful politics is about communicating a message…
5 Steps to Help You Run a Successful Web Project
1) Define the Project Team & Stakeholders Early On Web projects are generally of interest to a series of stakeholders within an organization. It’s…
Re-Thinking the Way We Design Websites
Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing With Web Standards, said it best, “ content proceeds design, design in the absence of content is not design, it’s…
Blue Beanie Day at Digital Echidna
Digital Echidna is proud to support the seventh annual Blue Beanie Day – an event intended to show support of web standards, which is officially…
Accessibility Matters - iAid Update
Last week I wrote about the iAid, using it as an example of a device which was overly complicated and less useful than existing low-tech solutions…
A Not-By-The-Book Guide to Copywriting and Editing
I firmly believe that if you want to improve your writing and editing skills, you have to take a not-by-the-book approach to skills development…
User Experience and Mass Transit Websites: Planning a Better Experience
So, how do you know if your transit site is any good? In the first part of our series we talked about the importance of open source - how open data…