2 months ago
The Ottawa Youth Orchestra Academy certainly needed a new website. But more importantly, its administrators needed a new registration system. And not just any registration system. This system had to privilege the user experience of stressed parents signing their kids up for music lessons. The answer for the website was Wordpress. But for the registration …
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2 months ago
I came across another empty calendar on a Wordpress site today. It reminded me of a lot of sad meetings where someone said “We should put all our events on a calendar on our website so people hear about them.” Someone added ‘calendar’ to the requirements list. A plugin was bought, installed and configured. The …
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3 months ago
Equal Voice, an Ottawa-based advocacy organization seeking to increase the role of women in politics relaunched their website in March, 2022. The organization had built their previous website entirely in NationBuilder. The design was beginning to show its age, but more than that, everywhere they turned, staff were running into the limitations of NationBuilder as …
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