All articles by Michael Trythall

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3 Nonprofit Website Design Elements that Increase Donations

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) do some of the most critical social and environmental work today, fostering civic engagement and leadership, driving economic growth, and strengthening communities. Every person in the US, and many throughout the world, benefit from the work of …
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Use This 5-Point Checklist to Evaluate Your New CMS

Evaluating a content management system (CMS) recently delivered to you can be challenging if you aren’t used to working in a CMS regularly. A solution can look good on the surface but be less than functional when you go to …
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How to Avoid Surprises In Your Website Budget

Asking how much a website costs is like asking how much a house costs. The answer depends on what you want. You’ll pay different prices for a two-bedroom cottage and a seven-bedroom rambler. In both cases, the difference can mean …
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7 Signs It’s Time to Rebuild Your Website

Whether you are a billion-dollar business, mom-and-pop shop, or mission-driven organization, your website is a key step along your audience’s journey, so it’s essential to get it right. You’ve known this from day one. But your organization isn’t static. It …
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5 Signs It’s Time For a Custom CMS

A content management system (CMS) makes managing and publishing content to your website a breeze. And most digital marketing teams adopt one of the popular ready-made platforms, like WordPress or Drupal, when first launching their business. However, as with any …
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Linting SCSS with sass-lint

Linting SCSS with sass-lint Complex projects always require multiple developers and design heavy web sites are no exception. Sass/SCSS is still our language of choice when writing CSS, both for its wide support and flexibility. The latter can be a …
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Getting Started with Element Queries

Element queries provide styling opportunities specific to an element’s dimensions. You could consider them the holy grail of responsive web design, allowing authors to determine an element’s look and feel regardless on where it’s placed. If given ample space you …
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Smarter Input Groups with Flexbox

If you have ever built a form using Bootstrap you have undoubtedly worked with input groups. Input groups are an excellent way to provide contextual help via iconography or associate specific actions with the appropriate field. However, they can be …