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Access All Areas

I’ve been working with Ensemble Cymru since 2015, supporting Peryn and his team to update and look after their website. It has been really great to work with such a creative and enthusiastic organisation. A huge part of Ensemble Cymru’s work is about bringing Welsh communities together to enjoy outstanding music, increase wellbeing and enable positive change… and that commitment extends to our website. We want to make sure that everyone can access our website so we’ve spent the past few months working on a redesigned website that has access at its heart.

Buying all versions of your domain name

Should you buy various versions of your domain name, and if so which ones?

WPML versus qTranslateX – a Clear Winner?

All over the world people use multilingual websites so they can get information they want in the language they prefer. Closer to home, in Wales, a large minority of web users prefer to access content in Welsh. For this reason, many businesses and organizations in Wales provide bilingual websites giving their visitors the choice to read Welsh or English.

Accessible xhtml tables 1: scope, id, headers

I hadn’t had much call for creating hard core data table in my web design work. However when asked to re-write some xhtml for an online bookings system I found some of the information generated seemed to lend itself to tabular organisation.

Pobol Peblig website gets accessibility standard

I’m very pleased to announce that the bilingual Pobol Peblig Partnership website has been awarded the RNIB’s (Royal National Institute of the Blind) See It Right standard for web accessibility. For more information on See It Right, other audits and web accessibility visit the RNIB Web Access Centre.

Your domain name: updating DNS settings and domain transfer

If you have your site redesigned or change your web hosting you will want your domain to point to the new site. This should be straightforward if you registered the domain yourself and look after your account. If someone else registered the domain for you, you might come across problems. This article explains what you need to know, gives a bit of background about domain names & the DNS, and how to go about solving any problems you come across.

Building an Accessible Website: RNIB See it Right

A website I’ve just been working on (Pobol Peblig Partnership) is currently being audited by the RNIB under the RNIB See it Right accessibility standard. This article covers some of the things we learned through the audit process, with background information to help understand how to approach building accessible sites and then gives some practical tips and things to remember.

Gettext: Images and other media

Using the gettext framework to display images and other media in the correct language

A Bilingual blog

Making a blog bilingual is relatively straightforward. There are a variety of plugins available which allow you to provide your blog in two or more languages. Go to the wordpress translation plugin page for more info.

Can Architecture Inform Digital Design?

How could architectural design rules be applied to the digital world? How does architecture effect society and what constitutes good design? Given we spend a significant amount of our time in the digital world, what responsibilities do digital designers share with architects.

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