Cobweb Text and Design

04/11/2020

A new resource for parents

Cobweb Design is proud to have completed this infographic site for ECHO, ARCHE, and TREKK Alberta, a coalition of child healthcare groups.

It helps parents prepare for taking a child to the emergency department and is designed to be accessible to a wide range of people including those newer to English.

We did a quick revamp and rushed deployment for the COVID-19 emergency by adding several sections related to current emergency procedures.

If you know a parent who may have to take a child to the ED please share this resource because there are some important things to know before taking a child to the hospital right now.

We're proud to be working with groups making a difference during the pandemic and to share information that will help front line healthcare workers do their jobs safely.

Cobweb developed this accessible site using Bootstrap and created a fulls set of customized vector graphics that recognize the diversity of Canadian families and visuals consistent with healthcare in our hospitals. We also assisted with plain language and accessible language editing to help translate medical information for people without a scientific background.

We loved developing live documents like this, and for digital or offset printing. Contact us for more information.

http://echokt.ca/covidemergency/index.php

07/26/2019

Cobweb founder Tamra Ross was featured by Athabasca University last week for her receipt of the NSERC Graduate award and her thesis proposal. Developing custom websites and apps for our clients is highly rewarding, but support from the academic community makes it that much sweeter.

AU Master of Science student Tamra Ross has received a prestigious $17,500 scholarship, which will support her development of an app to support distance learners.

06/20/2019

Cobweb's custom set of Adobe Acrobat proofreading stamps for PDF editing are getting more popular with both English and French editors. Let us know if there are any stamps missing from our site that you'd like us to add: http://cobwebdesign.ca/blog/proofing_marks.php

06/20/2019

We tested out some new skills for our latest site to support an Alberta reserach project in immunization support. The site needed to be accessible to people speaking 9 different native languages including traditional Chinese and Arabic. We learned a lot of tricks to lay out a site with languages running in both reading directions Need help with a multilingual site? Get in touch: cobwebdesign.ca

04/23/2019

Cobweb is happy to announce we've completed two more web sites (one, a Bootstrap-based infographic, the other WordPress) for our fabulous clients, but we can't share them yet because they are proprietary and awaiting launch! Hope to be able to share links and screenshots soon.

04/23/2019

Tamra and Karl will be at Wordcamp 2018 in Calgary this May 10. Hope to meet some new WordPress devs here in the city to share some tips and gripe about Gutenberg :)

06/05/2018

Cobweb Text and Design is pleased to announce the completion of the new website for the ECHO Research team at the University of Alberta: http://www.echokt.ca/. We provided graphic design and web development services to build a a highly-customized theme for our client that is accessible, mobile friendly, and easy for the ECHO team to update!

ECHO is on the forefront of Knowledge Translation (KT), which focuses on translating medical research results into practical medical policy and plain language resources that are accessible to patients and caregivers. We had a great time working with the ECHO team on this project and love how our collaboration turned out! Visit us at http://www.cobwebdesign.ca for details of all of our services.

06/05/2018

The front page of the new ECHOKT.CA website. A project by Cobweb Text and Design.

05/28/2018

We are delighted to announce that Tamra Ross is the recipient of the 2018 Lee d'Anjou Volunteer of the Year Award from Editors Canada.

The award reconigzes Tamra's past contributions to Editors Canada as the designer of the association's national magazine, Active Voice, and as chair of the awards committee, where she helped to establish the Karen Virag Award. And it highlights her current role managing the association's webinar program, which has become one of the largest sources of revenue for the not-for-profit organization.

Building on Karl Low's 2017 win of the Professional Writer's Association of Canada's award, our team is getting noticed!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, May 28, 2018—The Editors' Association of Canada (Editors Canada) has announced that Tamra Ross of Calgary, Alberta, is the recipient of the 2018 Lee d'Anjou Volunteer of the Year Award.

01/11/2018

Thanks to the Society for Technical Communication for today's member-only webinar from Randy Krum, the 7 Deadly Sins of Infographics. A great presentation with tons of useful tips that I'll be using in my current design contract! Gotta love member benefits.
https://randykrum.com/

10/13/2017

For the love of clarity: tomorrow is International Plain Language day! Coincidentally, I'm hosting a webinar for Editors Canada on November 1 for plain language pro Kate Harrison Whiteside. Virtual seats for this and other upcoming webinars still available at editors.ca!

http://www.iplainday.org/

Celebrate International Plain Language Day Oct 13

07/25/2017

Finally available: Cobweb Design's full set of Acrobat editing and proofreading stamps. 96 stamps in four colours, plus 36 French stamps. A student set of 22 stamps is available for free. The stamps have full transparency and are pre-installed so they can be added to Acrobat in a single step:
http://cobwebdesign.ca/blog/proofing_marks.php