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Responsive Design Patterns
April, 25 2012 CommentsA while back Colin sent me a link to a blog post by Joshua Johnson about responsive design patterns. What’s a responsive design pattern you ask? It’s a mockup that helps us plan out how our sites are going to react on various display types and resolutions. Since we’ve started using Foundation all of our sites behave in basically the same on smaller devices: that is, columns become rows and we hide some elements.
Our newly deployed site Internet Hall of Fame is a good example of a complex-looking theme with a very basic, very out-of-the-box responsive behaviour. Notice the menus and the logo in particular:
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Redesign in Process: Overview of a Content Audit
October, 12 2011 CommentsWe're currently in the process of redesigning and redeveloping our website and I'm documenting bits and pieces of that process here. The first post about the redesign process is here.
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Free Talk Tonight at Net Tuesday Vancouver
October, 4 2011 Comments
This is a bit last-minute, but I just realized that I'd neglected to post here that I will be presenting our recent talk, "Redesigning Your Website? What You Need to Know," at tonight's Net Tuesday Vancouver meetup. Net Tuesday is a fantastic (and free) monthly event for Vancouver-area nonprofits and the techies who love them, and I'm delighted to be their guest this evening.The event takes place at W2 Media Cafe at 111 West Hastings, and begins at 6:00 pm. Full details here.
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Redesigning Your Website? What You Need to Know
August, 15 2011 Comments
Update: Our slide deck, and a full recording of this presentation, are now available for viewing - just scroll down to the end of this post. So, it's the thirteenth time you've come up against the limitations of your current website, and you feel like you're hitting your head against a not-very-forgiving wall. Maybe it can't support multimedia the way you want it to. Or you really need an events calendar, but you've been hacking your blog as a sort of workaround that doesn't really cut the mustard. Or hey - maybe it just looks dated, and that shade of yellow you all loved five years ago is looking tired. You know it's time for a redesign. -
Why We Love EZP Hosting
July, 26 2011 CommentsAs a web studio we spend a lot of time talking about what it takes to build a site but it's just as important to have a place to put it. We’ve tried a lot of different hosts over the years and it’s such a refreshing change to have a great one that I felt like shouting (alright, quietly typing) it to the world. That host for us is EZP.
When choosing a host, you might Google “Top 10 web hosts” and pick out the cheapest and highest-rated but it’s not exactly cut and dry. We’ve had issues in the past with hosts charging hidden fees for easily-enabled features and we realize now that a good rating on a host doesn’t mean anything coming from a reviewer who has never needed any support.
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Redesigning eaves.ca: Online Branding Lessons for Solo Entrepreneurs
August, 10 2010 Comments
I recently redesigned a website for a personal friend and although it wasn't done under the official umbrella of Raised Eyebrow, I found that the project offered some interesting challenges I'd like to reflect upon briefly. -
Ideas worth spreading require many languages
May, 13 2009 CommentsTED, purveyors of mindblowing talks by some of the world's most visionary thinkers (and most engaging speakers), made a big announcement today: they've launched their Open Translation Project, which currently provides subtitles for TED talks in 40 languages.
Translating content is not revolutionary in and of itself -- although as someone who has worked on multi-language websites, I can tell you that successful translation efforts require a truly mind-boggling amount of careful planning and even more careful execution -- but TED has done something very interesting here, that's worth a closer look for anyone providing rich content and hoping to reach a broad audience.
The translations are made possible through the efforts of volunteer translators. Here's how TED is handling quality control:
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Usability Testing on the Cheap for Non Profit Websites
April, 28 2009 CommentsSmaller organizations often shy away from Usability Testing for fear of the big budgets that can be associated with it. One of the sessions I attended at the Non Profit Technology Conference today addressed this constraint and had some great suggestions for ways to incorporate usability testing on a small budget as well as some ways to simply reframe how you think about usability testing. Here's a summary of some of those ideas:
