My, what big “Tee’s” you have, or…why your type is too small.

You may have noticed that the font size on our new site is larger than you’ll typically see on most websites. That’s a deliberate choice on our part. In 2012, approximately 3% or about 750,000 Canadians reported having some limitation in their sight. Beyond that, at age 40, only half the light gets through to the retina as it did at …

With 32 million pages, every change is a big one

Next Thursday, Wikipedia will begin rolling out a new design for the site. While the changes may seem subtle, with 32,533,899 pages in 287 languages even a small issue grows into something complex. Wikipedia is 100% open source and available to the world to use and re-use, but there is no open source typeface that can render all of the …

Customer Spotlight: Cancord Inc.

Cancord Inc. is an Ontario based rope & cord manufacturer that has been operating since the 1880’s. They manufacturer unique products such as; Polysteel™, Dyneema®, and Technora® ropes as well as more traditional cotton, nylon and polyester cordage. Cancord has been online since 1999, but found that their site wasn’t generating the quality leads they were looking for. Cancord primarily …

I wish the default on my vacations was one month

Recently I was playing around with Airbnb.com to check out some of their unique properties. As I tried to set some dates to get a sense of the price per night I started getting frustrated by their Book It! form. Every date I selected would result in a “Those dates are not available” error beneath the date picker. Each time, …

Curiouser and curiouser

We’re super excited to finally announce the launch of the Cabinet of Curiosities website! We’ve been building the site for the last couple of weeks and it recently went live. We implemented a completely customized theme on a WordPress backend. The theme is also fully responsive, so out of the box, Cabinet of Curiosities is mobile-friendly. Not something you usually …

Wow! That’s a website?

Web technologies are advancing at a breakneck pace. It’s absolutely amazing what you can accomplish exclusively using web standards. Both Google and the Mozilla Foundation showcase the amazing things that can be done with modern browsers. Here are a few of the coolest examples I’ve come across. All of these run purely in your browser and don’t use any plugins …