Wednesday Wisdom | Reduced Motion Design, Linking to the Web Archive, and Improving Client Communication

Today is September 9, 2020, and for this Wednesday Wisdom episode
we're covering:


Reduced Motion Design

Linking to the Web Archive

Improving Client Communication



Let's dive in!


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Modern web browsers now support a wide range of CSS and
JavaScript properties that can create awesome interactive
features and animations. However, it is important to keep
accessibility in mind and realize that some people have
sensitivities to too much motion. Yesterday's post on Smashing
Magazine outlined how to use the prefers-reduced-motion media
query to take these users into account. The feature has fairly
good support now across browsers (sorry IE users) and can be used
in both CSS and JavaScript.


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When linking to an internal page on your website you can be
confident that the content will always be there, or at least be
redirected to. But when you link to an outside resource you are
at the mercy of that website owner, or are you? A post on Monday
from Hawaii GenTech brought up the interesting idea of linking to
a web archive version of that page to ensure consistency, avoid
broken links, and perhaps have better link authority. What do you
think: should you link to an archive like the WaybackMachine or
to the direct source?


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Quality communication with your client is the key to any
successful project. Finding that perfect zone of not
over-communicating or under-communicating can be challenging for
many, especially those newer to client interactions. Last week
SpeckyBoy published a post about how to improve client
communications to avoid wasting your time and the client's. For
example, being very specific about your services up-front can
help avoid headaches down the line.


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