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Accessibility Challenges in an Emergency (Web Design for Disaster Part 3)

By Mike McCaffrey, August 31, 2020
A mobile phone displays a help button while smoke rises from a dark city in the background.
During a natural disaster or public emergency, your users may face a variety of new physical, mental, and environmental challenges, while access to your platform may become more important than ever. Read more
Topics: Accessibility Mobile Strategy User Experience

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

There is No ‘I’ in Rebrand

By Graciela Alaniz, July 13, 2020
The words Kalamuna centered in the middle of the image with four tags with the names Andrew, Crispin, Patricia, and Graciela.

For the past year at Kalamuna, we have, slowly but surely, been working on refreshing our brand. Over much discussion, internal and external collaboration with branding agency C42D, and iteration, we ended up with a guide that laid the groundwork for our new brand strategy and visual identity system. This guide, however useful, was quite limited as a PDF. While PDFs are sufficient for viewing elements in practice, we require greater control over the properties of elements to easily duplicate and modify them across different projects and use cases.

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Topics: Apps Project Management Responsive Design

5 Tips To Get Top SEO Results

By Jason Blanda, July 6, 2020
A search bar with a line graph going up with a magnifying glass inspecting the graph.

Every marketing professional knows that being at the top of search engine results is important and that SEO will help to get them there. You may have also heard that SEO can be challenging to learn, but the truth is, SEO doesn't have to be difficult, and sometimes it can be pretty fun!

These 5 basic SEO techniques are easy to implement and will have you on your way to the top of search engine results:

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Topics: Analytics Strategy

Are You Ready for Drupal 9?

By Anya Mykhailova, June 16, 2020
A water colour painting of the words Hello Drupal 9 in light blue featuring a paint brush and a painter's palette.

Drupal 8 was one of the biggest releases in the platform’s history. Its release empowered the community to adopt more modern development technologies and tools. If you migrated a site from Drupal 6 or 7 to Drupal 8 you probably can attest that a considerable investment of time and resources was required for a successful migration. Luckily, migrating from Drupal 8 to 9 will likely be a walk in the park, in comparison. 

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Topics: Drupal Strategy

We stand against injustice and inequality. And, we’re here to do the work.

By Andrew Mallis, June 11, 2020

George Floyd’s murder has deservedly sparked the flame of social unrest. Rodney King, Oscar Grant, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor,  and countless more cases known and unknown continue to highlight the systemic and institutional racism that American capitalism depends upon.

Our very participation in the systems that breed oppression make us complicit. Society must change. Lives are at stake.

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Topics: Community Nonprofits

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

3 Simple Tips on UX Button Design 

By Graciela Alaniz, May 28, 2020
Hands on a variety of digital interface tools and buttons

Buttons have come a long way since the early days of the world wide web. We’ve gone from buttons mimicking the Windows operating system circa 1999 to large flat buttons with fully rounded corners we’ve seen increasingly over the past few years. In the example below, we can see how much button design has changed over the years. 

In this time, designers and developers have gained greater freedom in the presentation and behavior of buttons. But there are fundamentals to user-centered button design that are consistent despite the ebb and flow of trends. 

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Topics: Accessibility Responsive Design 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

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