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The first 25 years

2024-05-302022-11-30 by Christopher Mackay

Last Sunday, November 27th, 2022, marked 25 years since I registered tantramar.com, effectively launching Tantramar Interactive. This was months before I’d heard of Google (though they registered their domain a couple of months before), and at the time it felt like it was late to the website design/development game. An awful lot has changed over … Read more

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

Google Analytics has been removed

2020-09-212015-10-07 by Christopher Mackay

I’ve been considering doing this for a while. The controversy surrounding Apple’s decision to enable third-party ad blockers in iOS 9 made me think more about the underlying tracking that (to me) represents one of the most objectionable elements of online advertising. As a result, I have removed Google Analytics from this site.

Tantramar Interactive Inc. profiled in The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business case study

2014-04-092014-01-27 by Christopher Mackay

Nauman Farooqi, Professor & Head of the Department of Commerce in the Ron Joyce Centre for Business Studies at Mount Allison University, was kind enough to do a case study on Tantramar Interactive Inc. for his column in The Globe & Mail’s Report on Business. @globeandmail’s tweet: Working more but for less pay? It might … Read more