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08/07/2020

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01/07/2020

ICYMI: Our client, Oklahoma State University, recently won a Circle of Excellence Award for Web Design! 🎊

See more about this award-winning entry.

23/06/2020

Wondering some best practices to optimize the use of links on your site or in your copy? You're in luck. Our Senior Front End Developer, John Williams, takes a look and offers strategies on how to manage them!

Of all the accessibility issues we run into, improper link design is one of the most common and troublesome. How they look, what they should say, and how they should operate are contentious subjects. Links seem to have more accessibility regulations attached to them than most other website elements,...

19/06/2020

Excited to be continue working with Oak Hill Academy to streamline and boost their recruiting and admissions process for a more seamless future!

Oak Hill Academy is a small, co-ed, college preparatory boarding school in Virginia for students seeking growth in a structured environment.

17/06/2020

A new Wordpress site to support the school in their vision to propel the world through education, check out our most recent launch for 🎉 🎉

Carrington College offers hands-on health care career training, and Associates Degrees and Certificate programs in a variety of disciplines.

16/06/2020

Looking for a way for your school to stand out from the crowded pack, especially in these uncertain times? Thankfully, there's a solution. Check out this video from Collegis and AMA for strategies on how to effectively differentiate your school from the others 👏

The higher education market is getting more challenging, so it is important to start with your positioning. Here are some real tips for differentiating your ...

08/05/2020

Webinar: Create Content with a Pattern Library
Learn practical advice for preparing content to make the shift to using a pattern library, and learn how to run a workshop where participants can practice using patterns to build out effective interactive pages.

Websites are shifting away from blog-style text fields with free-for-all formatting and toward a more structured system of design patterns that adjust to fit any screen. These changes mean a new way of thinking for writers of web content. In this webinar, we'll give practical advice for preparing co...

12/10/2019

Infinite Scroll: A Bad Idea for Usability and Accessibility. But why is it so bad? Check out Melissas latest blog post here to find out:

Though a common interaction on the web, infinite scroll has numerous problems around accessibility, usability, and performance. The cost to work around them is usually not worth the tradeoffs, and, in the end, it can have a negative impact on the user experience.

09/10/2019

Now presenting: The Fundamental Humanity of "Agile"
John Williams | Monday, Oct 14, 4pm
Agile development can seem bizarre, strange, confusing, and even risky. But strip agile of its jargon — words like “sprints,” “burndown charts,” and “retros” — and you will find a process at the core that has driven most human creative activity. John Williams, a career web developer with a humanities background, will explore how software development has much more in common with literature than engineering — and how agile is an expression of the creative process we all already know so well.

Agile development can seem bizarre, strange, confusing, and even risky. But strip agile of its jargon — words like “sprints,” “burndown charts,” and “retros” — and you will find a process at the core that has driven most human creative activity. John Williams, a career web developer ...

07/10/2019

Check out our latest launch!
University of North Carolina School of Education:
We created a new site to support the school in their vision to propel the world through education.

The School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers highly effective undergraduate, graduate and post-baccalaureate degrees and programs. Our faculty prepare leaders in early childhood education, public schools, higher education, policy and in public service. We also pu...

30/09/2019

With easier data referencing, Drupal’s entity structure gives your website more power and flexibility than ever before— but it also requires a whole new set of skills for content managers.
Check out Rachel's latest blog post on Entities:

With great power comes great responsibility. With easier data referencing, Drupal’s entity structure gives your website more power and flexibility than ever before — but it also requires a whole new set of skills for content managers.