Photo of the Week: Michigan Peaches are Here!

Deep golden and orange peaches sit in a scalloped blue ceramic bowl.

If there’s one thing Michigan folks enjoy in summer, it’s fresh sweet corn, Michigan blueberries, and one of my favorites: Michigan peaches!

A local orchard comes to our Sunday farmer’s market to sell their vegetables and fruits, including their delicious Red Haven peaches.

Today I picked up a bag of peaches and I’m already sorry I didn’t get two bags so I could make some peach pie or jam.

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August 13, 2021: Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

In this week’s web design and development news roundup, you’ll learn how to prevent your product from becoming a tool for abuse, find a helpful guide for color contrast, discover the versatility of the HTML description list, and more. Continue reading August 13, 2021: Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

Plan Ahead: Designing for Translation

Online voter registration form for Nevada Secretary of State displays English instructions followed by Spanish instructions. Text next to screenshot reads: Providing a customer experience where the customer has to go through the English website to get to the Spanish (or other language) site. Offer them a dedicated URL that they can bookmark.

Have you ever visited a website in a different language, only to discover content wasn’t translated correctly?

For example, one page has content written in two languages.

Labels in the navigation menu overlap each other. Text in form labels overlap their associated form fields.

Imagery on the site is English-focused and doesn’t align with the culture of the language.

You quickly realize the site wasn’t planned for different languages.

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