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Season 4 of the Website 101 Podcast

Season 4 of the Website 101 Podcast is on its way!

1 minute to read Communications • Design • Droplets

The Website 101 Podcast: Minimal Viable Product

Did you know that I co-host a podcast for website owners with Sean Smith of Caffeine Creations called the Website 101 Podcast? Episode 7 of season 2 has just been released!

1 minute to read Communications • Design • Droplets • Usability

20 Years on the Web!

This year marks an amazing milestone for me: I started building websites 20 years ago!

2 minutes to read Communications • Droplets • Usability

Make your content more meaningful to the Web

When an article from your nonprofit's website is shared on Twitter or Facebook, what does it look like? How about when your website appears in Google search results? If you'd like to improve that, you probably can.

5 minutes to read Droplets • Usability

Eight common user experience problems (and solutions) for nonprofit websites: Part two

In this article, I'll talk about some of the most common user experience mistakes made by nonprofits and how to fix them. This is Part Two of a two-part article.

5 minutes to read Droplets • Usability

Eight common user experience problems (and solutions) for nonprofit websites: Part one

In this article, I'll talk about some of the most common user experience mistakes made by nonprofits and how to fix them. This is Part One of a two-part article.

2 minutes to read Communications • Droplets

Use social media to promote your website, not replace it.

You’re probably well aware of the affect that social media platforms can have on your nonprofit, so you probably have accounts on many of them. But are you using social media to enhance your Web presence, or are you just spreading yourself thin?

4 minutes to read Droplets • Usability

How usability testing can help your nonprofit

Did you know that performing regular usability testing can continue to help your nonprofit website long after the launch? In this Droplet article, I'll show you how to do usability testing, and why you should.

3 minutes to read Communications • Droplets

Do you have a backup solution?

Do you have a backup solution in place for your nonprofit website? If your website suddenly disappears, would you have a copy of all your content? There are many reasons this could happen, and if it does, you need to have a strategy for handling it. The first part of that strategy is having a system in place that creates backups of all your website data on a regular basis.