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Category: Tips

  • Introducing Sa11y: Your new content accessibility checker!

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    arianne
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    We’re excited to introduce you to Sa11y, the accessibility quality assurance assistant! Sa11y works as a simple in-page checker that visually highlights common accessibility and usability issues. Geared towards content authors, Sa11y straightforwardly identifies errors or warnings at the source with a simple tooltip on how to fix them.  Before using this tool, we strongly…

  • Gutenberg – the new post editor for WordPress

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    Stephanie
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    WordPress was recently upgraded to version 5.0.3 on blog.ryerson.ca. With this upgrade came a new editor for posts and pages, known as ‘Gutenberg’. Since August, blog administrators have been able to activate a Gutenberg plugin for their blog, to give them a preview of what was coming. In this post, we will cover some of…

  • Twitterfy Your Blog

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    Stephanie
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    Did you know that your blog and your Twitter account can work together? Adding some Twitter elements to your blog can pool together the audience for your blog with the audience for your Twitter account. Not only is it a way to promote on both platforms, but a way to generate interesting comments, and broaden…

  • Embedding Videos – The Easy Way!

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    Stephanie
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    Do you ever use your blog to share videos you find on sites like Youtube or Vimeo? There’s a really easy way to embed videos from some of the more popular video hosting sites – just paste the URL of the video. Until recently, we had to copy and paste the embed code from a…

  • Dealing with Blog Spam

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    Stephanie
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    We recently updated our article on “Dealing with Spam“, offering some tips and tricks to limiting spam on your blog. Blogging can be a time consuming process – and our time should be spent working on great content and a nice interface. Instead, we find ourselves taking time to check a never-ending list of what…

  • DST Change & Your Blog

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    Stephanie
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    Unfortunately, our system can’t update each blog for Daylight Savings Time, so you will need to do the following to ensure your blog is set to the correct time. This is especially important for those of us who schedule the release of our blog posts. Log into the Dashboard for your blog. Click on the…