Resources for your next website
What we have learned from planning, building and looking after websites for organizations, written so your team can use it before you talk to anyone.
- How to brief and compare agencies
- Accessibility and public-sector rules, explained
- Redesigns, migrations and launches
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Strategy
What Drives the Cost of a Custom WordPress Website in Canada
What a custom WordPress website costs in Canada is usually the first thing a buyer asks, and the hardest to answer in one number. The same words describe a twelve-page site for a professional firm and a bilingual platform used by fifty thousand people. A useful answer names the kind of project you have and what drives its cost, so you can place your own project and read a quote with confidence.
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Strategy
How to Write a Website Redesign RFP
An RFP is a filter. Publish the budget, give the content and document volumes, separate mandatory from rated criteria, state the contract terms, and never request speculative design.
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Technology
What Canadian Public-Sector Accessibility Requirements Actually Ask For
Canada has a federal standard, an Ontario statute and a Quebec standard, and procurement cites all three imprecisely. Here is what each one asks for, and what evaluators expect to see.
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Strategy
How to Plan a Municipal Website Redesign
A municipal website is a service counter, not a brochure. Planning for council cycles, document volume, bilingual capacity and accessibility is most of the work.
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Technology
How to Migrate Thousands of Documents Without Losing Search Visibility
Page migrations get planned. Document migrations get discovered. Inventory, triage, URL strategy and reconciliation, for the nine thousand PDFs nobody budgeted for.
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Strategy
8 Signs You Need a Website Redesign, and 3 Signs You Don’t
A redesign is a large, disruptive instrument. Eight signals that say rebuild, three that say do something cheaper, and the five measurements that tell you which situation you are in.
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Technology
13 Essential Checks Before You Launch a Website
Launch problems are rarely exotic: a staging noindex that shipped, a form that emails nobody, a redirect map built from memory. Thirteen checks, in the order we run them.
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Strategy
7 Tips to Choose the Perfect Domain Name in Canada
Most domain-name advice was written for a web that no longer exists. The seven decisions that actually matter for a Canadian organization, starting with who owns the registration.