Here at Carnelian Web Services, we believe that a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is a good start, but it’s a series of steps on the road to justice. Before you can have a diverse cohort of employees, you need to remove the systemic barriers that are preventing them from even applying to your company, and the barriers preventing them from succeeding once you’ve employed them.
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Accessibility
Making websites accessible is a very important aspect of user experience. Accessibility benefits everyone, because it makes websites easier for everyone to use. It is also a legal requirement in most countries, including Canada.
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User Experience
User experience is an important aspect of website design. Remember the bad old days of the 1990s, with marquees, animated graphics everywhere, an excess of links that were just labelled “click here”, and garish background colours?
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Localization
When you’re building a website which will be viewed by people from different cultures and countries, it is important to build it so that it can be easily and efficiently translated into different languages (internationalization), and then to provide versions of the content that are optimized for the relevant country and culture (localization).
Website localization is more than translating the website into the target language; it is important to take the local culture and economy into account as well. This involves user and market research in the target country.
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Search Engine Optimization
Many people think of search engine optimization (SEO) as a bit of a dark art. But in reality, if your website is navigable and usable for human visitors, this will also hold true for search engines.
When you are creating a page, it is important to think about what your target audience would be looking for, and make sure that the information they need to make a decision is displayed prominently on the page.
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Well-crafted Websites
Carnelian Web Services provides peace of mind, offering web solutions hosted and developed in Canada.
Your website represents your business, so you need content and design that stands out from the crowd.
We offer web services packages for different business needs, as well as custom solutions.
By hosting your website in Canada, you can rest safe in the knowledge that your data is secure and protected by strong privacy laws, and the hosting service uses clean and sustainable energy sources.