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Structuring Your Website and Content for SEO Success

By Jason Blanda, August 25, 2020
A website landing page graphic with three iconic characters displayed - The Orphan from Orphan Black, the Zombie from Hocus Pocus, and the ghost, Beetlejuice

In our last SEO article 5 Tips To Get Top SEO Results, we dove into the basics of getting your website ready for top SEO performance.

In this article, we will focus on some fundamental SEO principles to make sure you are getting the most out of your content.

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Topics: Analytics Articles Guidance

Emergency Landing Page Best Practices (Web Design for Disaster, Part 2)

By Mike McCaffrey, May 29, 2020
alert banners
An emergency landing page may be the best way to ensure that your visitors can find the information they need in a crisis, while minimizing any unwanted distractions. Read more
Topics: Accessibility Guidance Information Architecture Strategy User Experience

Alert Banner Best Practices (Web Design for Disaster, Part 1)

By Mike McCaffrey, March 30, 2020
A stylized collage of alert banner designs.
A well-designed alert banner will quickly and reliably catch the attention of your visitors when an emergency is in progress and direct them to additional instructions, resources, and updates. Read more
Topics: Accessibility Articles Community Drupal Guidance Responsive Design User Experience

How to work from home: Top tips from our remote team

By Patricia Rodriguez, March 26, 2020
Patricia's home office includes an ergonomic desk and comfy chair

Working from home (aka telecommuting) can be great for productivity and employee happiness. But not everyone is used to it – or prepared to do it (and many have been forced to recently because of COVID-19). At Kalamuna, we work on a distributed team, which means that most of us already work from home – and some of us are also used to setting up temporary workstations while travelling. It’s not always easy (or ideal), but a few small adjustments can make a big difference. Here are some of our team’s top tips for working effectively from the homefront.

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Topics: Community Fun Guidance Project Management

Telling the Story of an Online Education Innovator

By Lily Berman, March 18, 2020
A young student logs into her computer to review VHS Learning's website

Let’s take a trip back to 1996. Bill Clinton was elected to his second term as president, and the Nintendo 64 was released in North America. People called the internet the World Wide Web and logged into AOL to check their email while tying up their phone line. There was not much else to do online, as Google, Twitter, and Facebook were not around yet (thanks Slate and Wikipedia for the time capsule info).

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Topics: Articles Community Guidance Higher Education Nonprofits Project Management Strategy

Drupal 8 Evolution: Advice for Drupal 7 Website Owners Hoping to Migrate to Drupal 8

By Scott DiPerna, November 27, 2019
Shot from Jurassic Park movie when a Tyrannosaurus Rex is caught in the headlights of the heroes' jeep.

When is it time to panic?

“God help us, we're in the hands of engineers.” – Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park

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Topics: Discovery Drupal Guidance Higher Education Information Architecture Project Management Strategy

Donation Page Best Practices

By The Kalamuna Team, November 25, 2019
A detail of a donation form.

We’ve recently had the opportunity to streamline the donation page and form UX for a client. There’s a good amount of information out there on how to do it well, but a lot of it is scattered, and one often has to sleuth up chains of citations to get to the source material. As is to be expected, applying general UX best practices and basic heuristics to any user flow gets us a good part of the way there, but the donation process—an important conversion for any organization looking to receive funds online— has some unique particulars, some of which might even be counter-intuitive. 

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Topics: Articles Discovery Guidance Nonprofits Strategy User Experience

Sessions From the Great Wide Drupal North

By The Kalamuna Team, August 6, 2019
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We were honored to have two members of our team present sessions at Drupal North this past June in the beautiful and vibrant city of Montreal, Canada.  Drupal North is an annual,  free, three-day conference focusing on Drupal-related topics and the community that drives the Drupal Project forward.

We were pleased to make new connections while also reconnecting with friends and peers. As always, it was also a privilege to be given the opportunity to share our expertise.

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Topics: Accessibility Analytics Community Conferences Discovery Drupal Guidance Information Architecture Nonprofits Responsive Design Strategy User Experience

How to Reduce Bias in Your UX Practice with Persona Scenarios

By Patricia Rodriguez, July 15, 2019
Screenshot of persona images from Google Image Search

Do a search for "personas" on the web and you’ll get a smorgasbord of smiling faces of all ages and from all backgrounds - and top results are all related to design, user experience, and agile. Demographic-based and often marketing-driven, personas are pretty mainstream and relatable - except when they’re not.

And like the web, personas are evolving.

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Topics: Discovery Guidance Strategy User Experience

Sharing is Caring on Global Accessibility Awareness Day

By Crispin Bailey, May 14, 2019
A wide red brick path winds through a garden with Springtime flowers

Last year around this time, to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which takes place every year on the 3rd Thursday of May, we shared our list of favorite resources and tools that help us test and address the web accessibility issues that invariably crop up when we’re auditing, designing, and developing websites. We’ve updated the list this year with a number of great new tools and resources that we’ve come across in the last year.

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Topics: Accessibility Guidance User Experience

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