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Our latest musings covering a wide range of agency related topics and strategy to help push your business forward.

Create Success: Which Website Design Business Model Is Best For You?

Considering entering the web design industry or want to rethink your agency’s current model? Read about the different web design business models in this article!…

September 4, 2023

Selecting Accessible Fonts

We often discuss that accessibility begins during the design phase of a website project before even a single line of code is written. We’ve…

August 30, 2023

Lightweight Membership Website with Free Tools!

Dive into our latest tutorial on creating a seamless membership website using GeneratePress & GenerateBlocks. Discover key plugins, tools, and tricks for user-friendly onboarding!…

August 28, 2023

Text Alignment: Left, Center, Justified

The readability of text on websites is significantly impacted by how that text is laid out on the page and the alignment used. As…

August 22, 2023

Unlock Ultimate Organization with Notion: A Dead-Simple Workflow Alternative to Google Docs

Are you tired of losing your documents in the vast expanse of Google Docs? Join me as I unveil a straightforward Notion setup that’s…

August 22, 2023

Accessible Color Contrast

Color contrast failures are the most common accessibility problem found on websites during automated tests. Ensuring the websites you design have good color contrast…

August 15, 2023

Accessible Accordions

✋Raise your hand if you include accordions on almost every website you build. Accordions are helpful for shortening long pages and allowing people to…

August 8, 2023

Tumbleweed Territory: 5 Things to Do When Work Is Slow

Has work slowed down in your digital agency lately? Don’t panic! Read this guest blog from agency owner Abby Wood for 5 things to do when things are quiet….

August 7, 2023

Nav Menu Accessibility

This Accessibility Weekly is all about navigation menus. Can people with disabilities use the nav menus on the websites you build? Navigation menus are…

August 1, 2023

The Dream Team: How To Write A Careers Page That Will Attract Star Talent

Looking for the perfect candidate to join your team? Learn why adding a career page to your website will help you attract the best applicants to your business….

August 1, 2023

PDF Accessibility

Whether restaurant menus, newsletters, e-books, whitepapers, reports, or presentation slides, clients frequently want to include PDFs on their websites. Sometimes, they want PDFs because…

July 25, 2023

How to Make Accessible Tabs

Tab panels are a great way to conserve space and reduce scrolling when there is a lot of content on the page. Tabs can…

July 18, 2023

Add Autocomplete to Form Fields

Have you ever started filling out a form that asks for your name and address, only to have the browser suggest the information to…

July 11, 2023

Charge Smart: How To Price WordPress Website Design Projects For Fast, Consistent Results

Need help with how to price WordPress web design projects? Read this blog for top tips. Learn how the Project Estimator can help you increase your prices!…

July 7, 2023

When Reading and Focus Order Matters

As web developers, we have a responsibility to ensure that our websites are accessible to all users, regardless of their abilities. One key aspect…

July 5, 2023

System overload: When to hire a VA (and how to do it right!)

There are lots of great things about running your own agency. Being your own boss? Check. Working to your own schedule? Absolutely! Pursuing your…

July 3, 2023

Divs Are Not Buttons

We’ve previously discussed the differences between buttons and links and when to use one or the other. This week’s post is about one of…

June 27, 2023

30+ Books Every Freelancer and Agency Owner Should Read

Agency owners and freelancers: Unlock your entrepreneurial potential with this curated list of 30+ must-read books….

June 26, 2023

Use Lists to Enhance Accessibility

Formatting content into lists is an easy and under-utilized way of improving accessibility on websites. If we were creating a food blog, we would…

June 20, 2023

Pause, Stop, Hide

What do background videos, carousels, animated GIFs, and the dreaded background music all have in common? Besides the fact that clients love them despite…

June 13, 2023

How To Research Blog Titles For Your Clients (And Your Own Website Too!)

Do you struggle to come up with the best blog title possible?Read the latest blog post about how to research & compose a blog title for your blog….

June 7, 2023

Re-think Infinite Scroll

Infinite scroll is a technique used in websites and applications to provide continuous content loading without explicit pagination or clicking on “next” or “load…

June 6, 2023

Every Page Needs a Meaningful and Accurate Title

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day this year, I participated in a panel discussion with several colleagues, including Nick Corbett, Accessibility Training and Research Coordinator…

May 30, 2023

Indicating Language Changes

When building websites, it is crucial to declare the language used on the page or for any parts of pages when the language changes…

May 23, 2023