eGAAD! Here's one thing not to do for accessibility.
By: Michael Diedrick on May 11, 2021
For Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) we're going to cover the one thing not to do for website accessibility: use accessibility overlays.
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Domain Name Security, and Why It Really Matters
By: Michael Diedrick on Mar 8, 2021
Any website build or redesign requires we get involved with the organization’s domain name, and we’ve seen a lot of things that worry us. We’re creating this nice, easy checklist to keep everyone's domain names safe and secure. After the break we'll explain an overview about domain names, registrars and why keeping domain names safe and secure is vital. We'll also include a bonus round that can save money and administrative headaches.
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Coded Bias at Milwaukee Film's Black History Month
By: Michael Diedrick on Feb 1, 2021
Coded Bias is a new documentary that follows a researcher at MIT, Joy Buolamwini, who discovered that facial recognition doesn’t work for women or people with brown skin. Was it a bug, a feature, or an indication of something endemic to the industry that produces the applications and software that surrounds us?
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Interfaces without touch
By: Michael Diedrick on Sep 22, 2020
What's an interface without touch? We explore a new proof of concept and some demo apps to see what's in store. What's an interface without touch? We explore a new proof of concept and some demo apps to see what's in store. What's an interface without touch? We explore a new proof of concept and some demo apps to see what's in store.
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Byte’s tech investment pays off in the Age of COVID-19
By: Michael Diedrick on Jul 28, 2020
We've been busy here helping cultural institutions and libraries adapt to the changes necessary to keep people safe during the coronavirus
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Making Waves: The Art Of Cinematic Sound at the Milwaukee Film Festival
By: Michael Diedrick on May 1, 2020
When we think about the magic movies can create, we probably never think about sound design. Recording audio is tricky to begin with, but creating realistic sounding effects is certainly worth an interesting documentary. Check out details and showtimes after the break.
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Content Strategy Skills to Connect With Your Patrons
By: Michael Diedrick on Sep 2, 2019
Library navigations are important to get right because of the wide range of people visiting a site, and the range of needs those people have. We often hear librarians consider their website an online branch, which requires the care and thought an offline branch would take. So, how do you start thinking about a content strategy for a new branch? Read more!
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West Bend Community Memorial Library Puts New Website Live
By: Michael Diedrick on Jan 4, 2019
Libraries are of course a major focus here at Byte, and working with librarians is a great pleasure because they’re highly organized, they understand how content works and they’re strongly patron and community focused. We especially loved working with the good people at the West Bend Community Memorial Library (WBCML) because they’re highly inclusive and strive to communicate effectively
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It’s another day, so there’s another worry in the world of web development (and servers in general) -- the Heartbleed vulnerability for OpenSSL It’s a tiny ‘glitch in the mainframe’ that allows someone to read 64 kb of a server’s memory and un-encrypt things that are sent through what we all understood to be secure, like your credit card numbers or your secure email. And while every minor bug gets security analysts and the press running around like a bunch of frantic muppets, this one will be a real problem if not addressed. Why? Because it’s not a single piece of software, it’s part of the foundation of secure communication, OpenSSL, the system that keeps the most secret of the secrets.
What a wonderful Friday! It is finally not 100 degrees outside, our projects are moving along swimmingly, office cat is being as cute as ever, and we are enjoying the musical stylings of Lonely Planet on the office stereo. Recently we have had a few very technical and slightly stressful projects, but the team stepped up and met the challenge head on. Now they are fully functional and firmly in the rear-view as we move forward. Looking ahead we have some really cutting-edge, fun projects coming out way. Things are great! Enjoy some more cute office cat pictures after the jump.
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All the way from Manhattan... Kansas comes with out a doubt the greatest beer packaging I've ever seen. Just the other day, while our office sound system was playing the London Philharmonic's rendition of video game theme music, I was thinking about the massive impact these 8-bit video games have had on my generation. Forever seared into my frontal lobe is the Mario Bros. music (and apparently the ability to beat the first world with my eyes closed, no whistles needed.) It is fun to see my generation making an impact on the world.
In the business of being a client, you get the advantage of working with professionals, so all the really hard things are done for you. Except one: Content. Even we sometimes forget how hard it is to get the content right. Any time we forget how hard it is, we always remember when we upgrade our own website. It's like a powered microphone on a well-lit stage. 
Each month, we're taking a look at an eponymous law, a 'law' that's named after someone, usually the author.
