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Use Google Search Console to be a better listener by understanding what search queries are bringing visitors to your website.

When a website is frustrating to update and use, it can be cathartic to vent about it. Most likely, a number of people–working in various contexts, with different kinds of challenges and constraints–made the many decisions that created a website that’s frustrating you right now.  And when a site isn’t working for an organization, it can be tempting to look for someone or something to blame. As designers and developers, we have some insight into this. As well as into the age-old question: is it possible to future-proof your next site to prevent this from happening? 

Building a website should be much easier for us than it is for our clients. We can build websites in our sleep. We don’t have to run any decisions by outside stakeholders. What took us so long?

A new version of MaxLength is out now, with a more accurate character count for lines and spaces, a more consistent user interface and added flexibility for link fields.

The sunsetting of Google Analytics UA in 2023 is causing many to looking for alternatives. Plausible Analytics is an easier to use, privacy-respecting and ethical alternative analytics tool.

Google Analytics is changing, and becoming more complex. Do you need GA 4? Here’s a summary of the top analytics tools your nonprofit website can use to measure its performance, and how to find one that’s right for you. 

Practical advice on writing helpful alternative text and captions for your images.

If you’ve logged into your Google Analytics dashboard recently, you probably noticed this message, “Universal Analytics will no longer process new data in standard properties beginning July 1, 2023. Prepare now by setting up and switching over to a Google Analytics 4 property.” So what exactly does that mean? In short, you will need to either upgrade to the new version of Google Analytics or use another system to gain insight into your site traffic.

Folks often ask us, “What are the things that can make website redesign and rebuild projects more expensive?” The quick answer: things that take up a lot of time.

Last year, we at DevCollaborative became maintainers of the Maxlength Drupal module. Numerous usability tests, 32 commits and 35 contributors later we’ve reached a stable release for the project.