The first 25 years

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

Museums of South-Eastern New Brunswick website launched

The Museums needed a centralized presence on the web to help raise visibility for their members, who range throughout Albert, Kent, and Westmorland Counties in south-eastern New Brunswick. It basically acts as a directory, listing the names and basic contact info of the member organizations, and its main features are: speed (no content-management overhead here), … Read more

Don’t conflate a user’s language choice, nationality, & current location

Summary — Expecting users to select a national flag icon to choose a language, or cleverly detecting their computer’s language settings or current location and presuming either reflects their language preference is lazy thinking. I wish website designers would stop using nations’ flags to represent websites’ language. Countries are not monolingual — even if it’s … Read more