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Language Codes for the Web

Understand IETF RFC 5646 language tagging significance – a structured system revolutionizing web language identification enhancing accessibility, SEO and user-experience.

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Rethinking Personalization: A Case Against IP-Based Content Localization

It’s not uncommon for clients to express a desire to utilize personalization techniques to dynamically alter the language or content of a webpage based on the user’s detected location. In this article though we explore why that is not ideal and what we should be telling our clients to do instead.

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Social Image Size Specs: One OG Image to Rule Them All!

For almost a decade now I have followed Garrett Heath’s advice on formatting social media images but maybe it is time for a change. In this article I go over my own testing and conclusions on resolution sizes and ratios to use for OG Images.

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Scrolling is not bad, especially on mobile devices

In 2015 I wrote an article for my team inside the company I was working at but I felt like it was so useful that I decided to post it for all. The topic being about how designers trying to solve for long scrolling actually hurts the mobile experience.

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Fonts on the web

In 2015 I wrote an article for my team inside the company I was working at but I felt like it was so useful that I decided to post it for all. The topic being about how fonts for the web and really if we can even use the term web safe font anymore.