Raincoat or Sunscreen? Preparing Your Website for AI Search
Better believe there’s no shortage of forecasts about AI website optimization… what’s coming, when’s the blizzard arriving and the drought and the winds and those raining frog phenomena’s. Sadly it’s …
Make Your Site Intelligible to AI Bots by Defining Your Identity
Referees introduced something new at the World Cup this summer. During the USA vs Paraguay match they reversed a foul for “mistaken identity”. At openbox9, we have been reviewing our …
Make Your Site Hospitable to AI Bots by Cleaning Up
The AI bots crawling your website take a virtual tour of every nook and cranny of your house. They see that cabinet stuffed with to-go containers with no matching lids, …
Why Your Brand Deserves a Digital Style Guide (and My Farewell to PDFs)
The Case of the Broken-Down Brand Guide Unless you work in marketing, design, or another role that deals with public-facing products, you probably don’t often think about branding. It might …
College Sustainability Websites
Design expert’s review of university sustainability department websites – what design choices work, what doesn’t, and why.
Privacy Policy for Nonprofit Websites
If you ask for, track, or retain any information about a user visiting your website, you need to tell them.
How to Choose a Web Host: Part 2
Everyone has their favorite amenities when they travel. Free parking. Fitness equipment. Pet-friendly. (My favorite hotel offered a fish. You picked up your fish, in its bowl, at check in.) In …
How to Choose a Web Host: Part 1
According to realtors, finding a place to live starts with “location, location, location”. But your website lives on the internet – one big world-wide neighborhood. How picky do you actually …
Launch your Website Sooner, like we did
We launched a new website – our own! After years of getting by with an old site while we made extravagant new websites for other people, we finally put the …
Jargon Often Heard When Talking to a Developer
Decoding a coder
Background Videos, More Background Videos
Tips and guidelines for using looping background videos
Storytelling Through a Map
Can data and a map tell your story?