Blog Posts - Author: Marcus Harrison

It's important that everyone, regardless of disability, has unabated access to information on the web. People with disabilities should be able to comprehend, navigate, and interact with the web just like anyone else. Who doesn't like the idea of more people using their websites? Visual Impairment Snapshot Just focusing on visually impaired Americans alone: 4% Legally Blind 9% color blind 14+% with visual difficulties This equates to millions of people! Minimize Legal Risk - Be Proactive The Su

Everyone enjoys the web and the utility it serves in our everyday lives. However, not everyone interacts with the web in the same way. Many users with visual disabilities rely on screen readers and their keyboard to navigate and engage with websites.  A typical user who navigates the web with a screen reader will tab through key areas of the site using the tab key. This will take them along a path of focusable elements throughout the page in the order in which they appear in the HTML structure

The web is a utility that enhances and facilitates many aspects of our lives each and every day. It’s important that everyone, regardless of disability, has unabated access to information on the web. So, it goes without saying that we should all be crafting our sites with accessibility web standards and best practices in mind. Features like support for screen readers, captioning, and high contrast all help to create a more accessible and engaging web experience. Here are 3 accessibility gotcha

What is Browser Cache? The browser cache is a temporary collection of files from web pages you’ve previously visited stored locally on your computer. These files often consist of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and various media files. Having local copies of these documents helps facilitate faster load times during subsequent visits to the sites you frequent. Why Clear Browser Cache? Ideally, the browser should detect if a newer file exists on a page and update its cache accordingly by downloading only

Since taking the world by storm in the 90s, email has redefined how brands engage with their audiences. However, email all too often takes the form of a mass produced, one-size-fits-all mailer rather than a more personalized letter from a company to a customer. This article will focus on 5 important email engagement trends for 2019 and why you should focus on them. Segmentation - Your customers are not all the same and neither are their interests. Segmenting your subscriber database into vario

SVGs are ideal for the web due to their low file sizes and crisp appearance, making them perfect for icons, logos, and illustrations. However, working with them is often more complicated than typical file formats like JPG, PNG or GIF. Out of the box, Drupal’s default image and file fields don’t support the use of SVGs. Here are 3 Drupal modules to help you quickly and easily get SVGs into your content types.  UPDATE:  SVG support is now in Drupal Core. Use it.  If you find any bugs with i

SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics which are graphics that, as the name suggests, are scalable and therefore they look nice and crisp at every size and pixel density. Unlike normal image file types like JPG, PNG or GIFs, SVGs aren’t really graphics—they’re actually XML code! This allows SVGs to be easily manipulated and animated with CSS. Additionally, any live text within an SVG document is even searchable and indexable. SVG Creation is a Multi-Phase Process Much like a website, SVG

For those that may not know, a content management system (CMS) is the administrative back-end of the website that facilitates content creators without any HTML expertise, in editing and creating new content. Generally, this would be limited to editing the title and body of a page in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor or a rigid set of predefined fields in a content type. While this has traditionally gotten the job done it doesn’t allow for much flexibility in terms of page layout.

Google is leading the charge to a more secure web. The tech giant is taking steps in the way it handles non-secure websites in both search rankings and for its over 1 billion Google Chrome users. In search results, non-secure websites will now take a back seat to those that are secured with trusted SSL certificates. Texas Creative has answered the call by retroactively adding free SSL encryption to all of our Drupal websites. What is SSL? SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a web technology that creat