The line between designer and client is no longer as clear as it once was. With platforms like Drupal, WordPress, Shopify, Salesforce, Acquia Site Studio, and Squarespace, clients are shaping digital experiences every day, often without realizing how much...
If you’ve been putting off making your website accessible, you’re officially running out of time. Starting in April 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice will begin enforcing WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards for all public-facing government websites, likely including...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...