Christopher Mackay, Author at Tantramar Interactive Inc.

Website redesign for 2020

2020-01-072020-01-03 by Christopher Mackay

A redesign of this website has been launched at the start of the decade. While the site hadn’t seen a wholesale refresh since 2013, it wasn’t updated purely for the sake of looking new. Issues had cropped up with the mobile navigation (which used a technique that had never been deployed on any clients’ websites) … Read more

New post: A note on SEO

2018-02-19 by Christopher Mackay

Because I’ve gotten so many questions about this, I’ve finally decided to take the time to write up my thoughts on the fear-mongering spam email messages website owners often receive. A note on search engine rankings and optimization (SEO)

What is design? (voicemail fail edition)

2020-09-212017-01-25 by Christopher Mackay

I was talking to a client on the phone earlier today who told me that the last time they called (and I hadn’t been able to answer), my provider played a recorded message to the effect that “the number they’d called was not in service” or that my number “does not exist in the system” (I’m paraphrasing).

Skeleton key security

2020-09-212016-02-26 by Christopher Mackay

Nearly 40 years ago, my family moved to a typical Maritime neighbourhood. Something that stands out in my memory (aside from the nightmarish floral-print wallpaper in my bedroom), was that my bedroom door and the bathroom door each had skeleton keys in their locks. I’d only seen skeleton keys in movies before.

skeleton key illustration

It wasn’t long before I discovered that these keys — while not quite identical — were interchangeable: each key could unlock the other door.