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					<description><![CDATA[Is your website performing for you the way it should? Have you checked your SEO, performance, accessibility, usability, and AI-search-readiness (AIEO or GEO) recently? Do you know what is a good score for each of these metrics? A score between 0 and 49 is poor and needs addressing urgently. A score between 50 and 89 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Introducing our services</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
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		<title>Why Font Choices Matter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
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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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
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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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					<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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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Microformats are a way of marking up standardized data so that search engines, AI tools, and calendar tools can process it. Adding them to your site helps AI tools and search engines to rank your website higher in search results. Some examples of where microformats are useful are: When you download a calendar appointment from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
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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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
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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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					<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>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>Styling your Website</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yvonne Aburrow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since the invention of the web, styling on websites has improved in leaps and bounds. You can have gradients, rounded corners, overlapping elements, drop-shadow, scalable and responsive content, and much more. This is all made possible by CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). They&#8217;re called cascading because the styles &#8220;cascade&#8221; in a hierarchical way. A more specific [&#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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