When we started working on the redesign of the Pasadena City College (PCC) website we were presented with the daunting task of sorting through over 33,000 pages of content. Their current website had no site structure or organization. The majority of the pages had out-of-date, inaccurate information. Another hefty chunk were just duplicates of the […]
Preparing content for a website is challenging. Doing so with multiple stakeholders is even more challenging. And doing it with hundreds of stakeholders can seem near impossible. The larger the company or institution, typically means more content that exists and even more opinions on which content reigns supreme. Everyone thinks their content is the most […]
Just a simple HTML5 maintenance splash page we utilize for various instances. Here is the code below or download the file (updated April 2018). <!DOCTYPE html> <!– saved from url=(0067)https://mackeycreativelab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/index.html –> <html class=”gr__mackeycreativelab_com”><head><meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″> <meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width”> <title>Performing Maintenance</title> <meta name=”description” content=”Performing maintenance…”> <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico” type=”image/vnd.microsoft.icon” /> <style type=”text/css”> /* Reset */ […]
Honestly, we never thought we would become accessibility experts (well, maybe not experts, but at least well schooled). We didn’t pay much attention to accessibility. Of course, we were cognisant of the SEO benefits of making sure your headings are in order and that you have alt tags on all your images — but if it didn’t […]
It’s a simple answer, yes Pop-up Boxes work. As annoying as we may think Pop-ups are to us as end users, they do work — and actually, they don’t need to be annoying. With good timing, thought, and creativity, Pop-up Boxes can work and can actually not annoy the end-user, in fact quite the opposite.
InvisionApp is a product design collaboration platform. Through InvsionApp we can collaborate on design prototypes by adding comments and feedback directly to the design screens. Adding/Removing A Comment To add a comment to a prototype screen: Use the link provided to you to open the prototype and go into a screen. Toggle to “on” to […]
In our particular instance, we created a custom post type for Community Testimonials with a Taxonomy for Types. The Taxonomy has various terms. We then wanted to create a shortcode that the content manager could use to display Community Testimonials based on various Types. In the end we wanted to create a shortcode that looked like [customer-testimonial […]
We’ve been working recently on a multilingual site for Sonoma County Adult Education and it is important that they have full support for both English and Spanish. Since we’re using WordPress to build the site we opted to use the WordPress plugin Polylang. Polylang has been very simple to setup and configure even with our […]
