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🌎💻 Your website has a carbon footprint
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🌎💻 Your website has a carbon footprint

🌎💻 Your website has a carbon footprint

Earth Day was last week, but the question of whether our choices are helping or hurting the planet doesn't take a day off, and that includes choices like how your website is built and who's powering it. There are three areas worth considering. Site performance Every time someone loads a slow, bloated page, it burns more power than it needed to. And now multiply that across every visitor, every day...…
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How web visitors digest complex information

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This is webinar will be useful not only for those who are in charge of websites, but to pass along to subject matter experts, technical staff, or anyone who tends to create content that’s rich in information but challenging for online audiences.

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⚠️♿ Don’t rely on accessibility overlays
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⚠️♿ Don’t rely on accessibility overlays

⚠️♿ Don’t rely on accessibility overlays

Making your website accessible is important—but it’s not always quick or easy. (If it were, we’d all have perfectly accessible websites already!) That’s why many nonprofits turn to “accessibility overlays” or widgets that promise a fast fix. These are tools,…
April 14, 20264 min Read More
📊🤔 Take a guess at your website results
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📊🤔 Take a guess at your website results

📊🤔 Take a guess at your website results

Many nonprofits keep an eye on website numbers like pageviews, email signups, new blog posts posted, or event registrations. But fewer organizations take an extra step that helps you actually learn from those numbers: making a forecast. A forecast is…
March 25, 20263 min Read More
👋🏙️ Promoting your website in real life
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👋🏙️ Promoting your website in real life

👋🏙️ Promoting your website in real life

When nonprofit website promotion comes up, the conversation usually jumps straight to SEO, AI, and digital ads. All of that matters. But your audience doesn’t live exclusively (or even mostly) online. They’re at bus stops, conferences, clinics, libraries, and community…
March 14, 20264 min Read More
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