Paving the Way -- What Would You Tell Your 16-Year-Old Wannabe Developer Self?

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If you could do it all over again, what route would you take to get you where you are now? What decisions and actions would help smooth out those bumps in the road and pave… Read more

Focus On Quality and Your Customers Will Make Time for Your Content

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How can you cut through the clutter and capture your customer's curiosity when time, clearly, isn't on your side? I'm not going to get into debates about how many seconds… Read more

Disagreements Can Be Disagreeable, But Your So-Called Enemy May Be Your Biggest Business Ally

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Deterring abuse is good. Deterring disagreement is not. And the key for businesses is learning to understand that the latter does not equal the former when you don't like… Read more

Generating Content Ideas Should Never Be Random

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Fake it 'til you make it? It's debatable as to whether or not it works. But when it comes to creating content that resonates, it's better to wait for inspiration than to… Read more

Accessibility Matters - Audio Description: How Much is Enough?

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Finding the balance between what's ideal, what's needed, and what's acceptable is a key feature -- and challenge -- of accessible practises. And while most people want to do… Read more

Ask Echidna -- The Way We Do the Things We Do

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We've received another batch of questions for today's Ask Echidna, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to answer some of the frequently asked questions we get about… Read more

Another Drupal Drop in the Canadian Bucket

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It's another 'drop' in the bucket, but tomorrow's Toronto Drupal User Group event, which we're sponsoring, is part of what we hope will be an ongoing downpour of awareness… Read more

Understanding Accessibility - The Challenge with Acronyms Like A11Y

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Accessibility covers a variety of topics, but the overriding goal of all its efforts is that you want to make content as easy as possible to understand, with the fewest-… Read more

Missing the Forest for the Tweets

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It's one of the great self-imposed challenges of our times -- we're so focused on being first that we forget about the importance of being best. Our desire to catalogue, in… Read more

The Perfect Time to Update Your Content

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There are plenty of conflicting ideas out there about when the best time is to update your site's content, send out messages, or post on social media. But there's only one… Read more

Getting Real About Content Marketing

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We should do lots of things. But what we can actually do with the resources available to us -- that's what we need to focus on, and that's where we're going to have success… Read more

Drop-ping in to the Great White North

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A diamond means you're engaged -- so it's only fitting that since we're 'married' to the Drupal content management system that we've signed up as diamond sponsor of the first… Read more