Tread Lightly Website Development and Design

11/08/2024

Follow me on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/treadlightly.bsky.social I will be posting more actively over there.

07/18/2018

Super excited to also be speaking at WordCamp Niagara this year!

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario | August 11, 2018

05/16/2018

I'm so excited about having the opportunity to speak at WordCamp Hamilton this year.

Dreaming of electric wapuu...

01/22/2018

Super excited about the launch of the latest site I've been working on for many months! Check it out:

OFA is the trusted, farmer-led organization for Ontario’s farming community. We use our grassroots voice to advocate for a sustainable farming and food

12/04/2017

I just completed a workshop on website accessibility with Accessibility Ontario

Accessibility Ontario has given credit to Heather Gray: Offered by Accessibility Ontario on November 30, 2017

10/21/2016

"There are some characters you can only see on stones. If you don’t move them to the web, over time those stones will become sand and we’ll never be able to recover those drawings or that writing"

http://www.monotype.com/resources/case-studies/more-than-800-languages-in-a-single-typeface-creating-noto-for-google/

A typeface five years in the making, Google Noto spans more than 100 writing systems, 800 languages, and hundreds of thousands of characters for users worldwide

10/06/2016

A great read with some hidden gems (links to great female-oriented font foundries and searchable font lists).

Typography appears to be a particularly male-dominated area of the design industry, and I often ask typographers why they think that it is. When I go to design conferences, there are brilliant women in the line-up who talk about type (at this year’s TypoBerlin, Nadine Chahine was the highlight), but

05/04/2016

Retweeted Downtown Guelph ():

Thoughts with neighb + city centre razed by fire. Text REDCROSS to 30333 to donate $5 https://t.co/rzzJ5ISQfM

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Emergency officials confirmed late Tuesday that whole neighbourhoods of Fort McMurray have been destroyed by a raging forest fire that sliced through the middle of the northern oilsands hub city.

04/12/2016

Potentially interesting article on SnapChat marketing. https://t.co/u7i4kXVnWA

SnapChat is the fastest growing social network. EVER. On top of that, it’s the most engaged – users snap over 400 million times a day. If your audience isn’t using it now, they will be very soon. Right now, marketers are struggling to build a presence on SnapChat, for a number of reasons: SnapChat i…

04/12/2016

Retweeted Sen. Wilfred Moore ():

Let's end whale, dolphin captivity. Please sign & share this petition to pass S-203 https://t.co/Xk59Zt3kVS https://t.co/YofpZsJLKX

Get the whole picture - and other photos from Sen. Wilfred Moore