Photo of the Week: Green Heron on Alert

The greenish-blue heron stretches its neck above the floating leaves on the water.

Even with its outstretched neck high above the floating green leaves, if I hadn’t seen the Green Heron land in the shallow water, I might have missed it. Broken branches and whole tree limbs were strewn across the lake from the thunderstorms that swept through our area. It was a challenge for me to find… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Green Heron on Alert

August 27, 2021: Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

In this week’s web design and development news roundup, you’ll learn about creating problem statements, find out what you can do to protect users’ privacy on the websites you create, discover a two-day free online accessibility workshop, and more. Continue reading August 27, 2021: Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

Thoughts on Plausible and Koko Analytics, Privacy-Friendly Analytics

Graph paper on a desktop displays a line chart with vertical axis ranging from sucking to not sucking and horizontal axis from the past to the future. A ruler and pens lay on top of the graph paper.

When I learned Gauges, my longtime favorite analytics plugin, was removed from the WordPress repository for violating guidelines, I needed to find another site analytics plugin.

Not only for my own site, but for my clients’ sites.

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