April 25, 2012 Posted by workingdesign in Clients, Featured
This weekend, labour groups across North America will gather to honour workers injured and killed on the job -- and to renew their commitment to making work safer.
Monday’s tragic sawmill explosion in Prince George, BC has taken the life of two workers and More...
National Day of Mourning April 28
April 5, 2012 Posted by workingdesign in Arts, Featured
Easter, eggs and bunnies all go together. Besides the fun of the hunt for chocolate Easter eggs, I used to enjoy colouring the eggs when I was a kid and, later, with my own kids. More...
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February 7, 2012 Posted by workingdesign in Featured
Why are so many of us on Linked In and not using it? While this “Facebook-for-the-work-world” social media platform boasts 120 million users, a lot of us don’t know why we’re there. We have incomplete profiles, a handful of connections and hardly ever visit.
Most of us signed on because we don’t want to miss out on a useful online, social media opportunity. But, what exactly is the opportunity? More...
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December 21, 2011 Posted by Colin in Tip-sheets, Web Design
I tend to recommend a lot of google products. One that I recommend very often is the use of Google Calendars as a calendar of events on your website. Using Google Calendars saves you having to install and configure clunky event management plugins, and fits easily onto a page on your website using a little bit of embedding code. You can even have more than one calendar display at a time and choose which ones you want displayed from a little drop-down menu. I will briefly describe how this is done and include links to the Google documentation for each step. They do a much better job of explaining than I would. More...
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December 9, 2011 Posted by Colin in Design, Tip-sheets, Web Design
It's become an age old question. "How do I optimize my image files so that they are small and fast loading, but still look great?" Image formats, and image optimization tools have come a long way, but there have always been just a few fundamental concepts at play here. More...
December 7, 2011 Posted by Colin in Social Media
I have noticed many people are confused by what happens when they click the RSS icon on their website. I think this confusion stems from people forgetting exactly what RSS is, in combination with the placement of the RSS icon in the same place as other social media icons. More...
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November 22, 2011 Posted by Colin in Tip-sheets, Web Design
So, we’ve helped you build a website. The content reflects your marketing plan, calls to action, organizational structure and more. Now what?
Well, it’s time for you to take over your shiny new site and make it work for you. And that means you’re going to need to learn how to use the WordPress CMS (Content Management System. A great place to start is with the WordPress Lessons documentation More...
November 18, 2011 Posted by Colin in Tip-sheets, Web Design, Workingfolio
We've launched a lot of websites for our clients on a lot of different web-hosting services over the years. And we've often found that clients choose providers that make things unnecessarily difficult, and much more time consuming than they should be. How should you choose a host? What should you be looking for in order to get the best service? More...
October 26, 2011 Posted by Colin in Tip-sheets, Web Design
We are often asked for advice about how to submit a website to the major search engines, and what other things one can do to begin promoting a new website. Here's a list of the submission pages of the three major search engines. Just follow the instructions on each of them to submit your site. More...
October 12, 2011 Posted by workingdesign in Featured
Working Design is proud to once again sponsor the expanded Media Democracy Days. For the first time, the 10th annual edition will run over three days from Nov. 11-13 at the Vancouver Public Library with other events taking place at nearby venues.
Last year, Media Democracy Day drew together more than a thousand people More...
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