What are cookies?

By Hannah Rhoslyn March 4, 2021September 22, 2021

And why are we always being asked to accept them?

Hannah Rhoslyn

Hannah is the founder of Apricot & Olive.

Design

Excerpts for pages

By Sherwin Arnott July 26, 2020February 20, 2023

It’s nice to have page excerpts. Here’s one way to do it: https://workingwithpixels.com/add-excerpts-to-wordpress-pages.html

Web

External link icon shortcode preference

By Sherwin Arnott July 14, 2023July 14, 2023

There are a number of WordPress plugins that will allow you to apply external link icons automatically, but that’s not really my preference. I like…

Beautiful puppet characters stand on stage, awkwardly.

Thinking

Childline – “Nobody is normal”

By Sherwin Arnott December 3, 2020September 22, 2021

This is the best. And it’s evergreen.

Ilustration of a bearded grey haired dude, with the word, Mainstreaming, beside him.

Thinking

Language, attention, and some other thoughts on mainstreaming

By Sherwin Arnott November 28, 2020September 22, 2021

From the plasticity of culture, to consolidating power, Ian Danskin does an interesting job presenting on mainstreaming in this short video.

Design

Converting a WordPress site to a flat HTML site

By Sherwin Arnott October 25, 2020February 20, 2023

In the past I’ve experimented with archiving old WordPress sites by converting them to HTML files and hosting them at archival URLs. The plugin I…

Communications

Brand, marketing, and press guidelines in one spot

By Sherwin Arnott January 26, 2021September 22, 2021

Mount Allison University is going through a website redesign at the moment so lots of these guidelines are going to get shuffled and rewritten, no doubt. But I love these old pages.