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  • How to curate a 21-day equity challenge

    I am proud of my colleagues who designed and led a company-wide 21-Day Equity Challenge. I am excited to share it with you!

  • Selecting a web partner and managing for quality: Five things, plus five more things

    Here are our recommendations for selecting a quality-obsessed web partner and then managing the redesign project.

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    Stakeholder involvement: Brief thoughts

    A website project has many stakeholders. For a smooth process, we recommend stakeholder involvement at key parts of the redesign process.

  • An intro to styled components

    Senior User Experience Developer Jo Murgel created a short video course to explore a simple usage of Styled Components. Check it out!

  • How we’re building an equity-minded remote company

    You’ve heard Alley is a company committed to building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, and are wondering what actions we’ve taken. Over the past year we have focused on supporting equity at all intersections and improving team member learning and development as part of a long-term sustainability plan to embed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) efforts in all areas of Alley’s business.

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    Mythbusting continued: WordPress security

    WordPress itself is fundamentally secure and extremely stable. The vast majority of security issues with WordPress sites are caused by avoidable errors: failing to update WordPress core, using unvetted plugins, and using insecure passwords.

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    Three approaches to identifying the best CMS for your business

    In the world of content management systems, there are many approaches you could consider when building your website. Today we’ll look at three popular options: traditional WordPress, JAMstack, and decoupled WordPress.

  • Audience revenue, social networks, and disinformation

    Lede, Alley’s platform for journalism startups, is our answer to scaling the technology needed by news organizations.

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    How to avoid writing bad survey questions

    Surveys can be a valuable way to get data directly from your users. But only if the questions are well-thought out. We discuss some of the most frequent mistakes people make, and how to avoid them.

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    Is WordPress the right platform for your organization? Addressing common concerns.

    While the many benefits of WordPress are well-known — it’s free and open-source, it features a user-friendly content editor, it makes SEO easy — WordPress is plagued by misconceptions about its perceived weaknesses.

  • Invisible disabilities and the web

    In this video we explore what it means to have an invisible disability and how that impacts the way you design and build products.

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