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		<title>Why Font Choices Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The fonts you choose for your website are a key aspect of branding. The font styles you choose make your website distinctive, and subtly communicate your values. The Google Fonts directory even has keywords for the feelings and seasons evoked by a font. Font choice has been in the news lately, as the US State [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Alternative Text for Images</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the key components of accessibility is providing alt text for images, especially if the images contain text.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mega Menus vs Drop-downs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A mega menu is a wide menu with multiple columns of sub-pages. A drop-down is a narrow menu with a single column. Which is the best choice?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Introducing Expert Guides</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are delighted to present our freshly updated and redesigned expert guides, which are free to download from our expert guides page. If you find them useful, you might want to consider booking our training courses, which explore the material in more depth.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Favicons and Logos</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Your logo tells a story about your business in a single graphic. The colours, fonts, and symbols that you choose express your values in a concise way. If your logo is truly distinctive and your brand is very well-known, it may be recognizable on its own without your company name. How many of these logos [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Holding out for a Hero</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A hero is a content block that has a big bold image, a headline, a short explanation, and a call-to-action (either a button or a really short sign-up form). A hero can sit at the top of a landing page, or as featured content in a blogpost or content page. It can even be at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Does Your Website Reflect Your Values?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Your values are how you show up in the world as a human, so it would be strange if your website did not reflect your values. Values are not the same as politics, although they do affect how you vote and what you campaign for. There is a broad social consensus in Canada that we [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the difference between a designer and a developer? A lot of people assume that these terms are synonymous, but they are increasingly found on different teams in large organizations. There are other roles in the software development space that are also needed to ensure that the finished product is reliable and usable. Designer A [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[These are some of the tools that I use all the time during development. 24 ways The advent calendar for web geeks. For twenty-four days each December they publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring everyone a little Christmas cheer. A List Apart Explores the design, development, and meaning of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Choosing a content management system (CMS) is tricky. There are many systems available, and several factors you should consider in the selection process.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Responsive Websites</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 14:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A responsive website is one that you can view equally well on a mobile or desktop device. The font size and layout should be readable without zooming, panning, or scrolling horizontally. Most of your visitors are using a mobile More than 60% of visitors to your website will be viewing it on a mobile phone, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Organizing your Content</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When you are building or updating your website, you need to think about what your target audience will expect to see. There are various ways to find out what they will expect; you can ask a group of people who are likely to use your site what they would expect to see; you can look [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>User Stories and Personas</title>
		<link>https://www.carnelianwebservices.ca/2025/04/25/user-stories-and-personas/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A user story is a way of describing a website or product feature in relation to the person who will use it, how they will use it, and why it is useful. User stories usually follow the format “as a [role], I want to do [task], so that I can achieve [goal]”. This can also [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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