Is your nonprofit website helping or hurting your mission? This post explores 10 common nonprofit web design problems—like outdated tools, poor mobile usability, and inaccessible content—and how a nonprofit web designer can help fix them so your site becomes a true asset for growth, fundraising, and community engagement.

A hospital’s website is more than a digital presence—it’s a critical touchpoint for patients. In healthcare, clarity, compliance, and usability aren't optional—they're essential.

Strategic web design in Chicago empowers nonprofits to build trust, engage communities, and drive impact, without compromising quality or blowing the budget.

Chicago’s thriving sports tourism scene is driving a surge in online traffic, but many local businesses aren’t digitally prepared. As fan-driven demand grows, outdated websites risk losing customers. This blog explores how more brilliant eCommerce design can turn that challenge into an opportunity.

Chicago’s small businesses power the local economy—a strong website is essential in today’s digital world. This guide explores what to know before starting website development in Chicago.

GitHub Copilot can be directly integrated into the user's text editor, making the code itself the question.

In a 31 page ruling just handed down by the US District Court, Judge Mark Pittman has determined that restrictions on using third-party web technologies are unlawful.

Django 3.2 reaches its end of life in April 2024.  We've been busy upgrading all of our sites to Django 4.2, the current LTS.  As part of this upgrade cycle, we've begun leaning on artificial intelligence tools to see if we could decrease the time it takes for the upgrade.  Happy to report we've seen a significant time savings.

Looking online for answers to the question “how do I dynamically refresh content in the Django admin?” turns up roll-your-own JavaScript solutions, possibly with the help of jQuery. Those solutions were great back in grandad’s day, but nowadays all the cool kids are using HTMX!

Siteconfig is an open source Django package from Imaginary Landscape for quickly and easily toggling Django apps on and off across multiple websites, multiple sections within a single website, or both.

There are two main reasons websites are popping up cookie disclosures - the CCPA and GDPR - two sets of privacy laws that may (or may not) apply to your website.

The short answer:  the same way as any project

In 2003, Harvard Business Review published a short article entitled "Wanted: Chief Ignorance Officer" in which the author described the benefits of ignorance.  Long considered a detriment, this article cataloged all the advantages of ignorance.

Multi-page, or multi-step, forms are a common way to manage complex user inputs.  This technical post outlines the techniques we use to build them in Django.

I recently visited the website random.org, which is a free/fee-based generator of random numbers.  It's been around for a long time - since 1998.  It made me revisit the concept of randomness and how oddly hard it is to achieve. Why is randomness important? It's amazing how many things rely…

Would you like to pull in the header and/or footer from a related but separate website for use on your own pages? Here's how.

The marketing software company HubSpot offers a nifty feature called "custom CRM cards."  The idea is that a HubSpot dashboard can send a GET request to an API that you maintain, retrieve some JSON-formatted information and render it in some "cards" alongside other data.  One of our clients wished to use…

One of the biggest issues with Python (our preferred development language) is dependency management.  Any individual deployment can result in minor differences in the versions of the files and libraries which make up the application.  And these minor variations introduce uncertainty and randomness into our deployment process. So, we've investigated…

A new study accepted for publication in the British Journal of General Practice asserts that the majority of general practice websites contain content well above the recommended reading level for online content. The study analyzed 3,823 pages of content scraped from 813 Scottish general practice websites.  Analysis showed that 2,942 pages…

Whenever I go to a website, my eyes go immediately to the year. You'd be surprised how many websites say 2006 or 2002 or even 1999. At best, is demonstrates no attention to details and at worst it proclaims the site as abandoned. At Imaginary, we have our site and...

Companion code for this post: https://github.com/ImaginaryLandscape/deprecate_cmsplugin_filer If you've been building projects using django CMS for any length of time, chances are you're familiar with Divio's cmsplugin-filer application which provided image, link, file, folder and video plugins for interacting with django-filer. And if you're here, chances are you're aware that cmsplugin-filer has now...