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Weaving Hope: A New Venture Aims to Build School in Rwanda
Weaving Hope, a new philanthropic partnership between NC-based Beacon Technologies and Georgia-based burton+BURTON®, is targeting the educational and nutritional needs of Rwandan children. Through the Hope on A Thousand Hills mission of the Anglican Church in Rwanda, the initiative aims to raise funds for a new school through the sale of authentic, African baskets. [...]
How to Close a Toggle Menu with an Outside Click
Adding a toggle menu is nice and straight forward with your preference of CSS or jQuery, but when you want to be able to click outside of the menu and close you will need to add a little more jQuery functionality. This option adds a few extra lines of jQuery, but overall very simple [...]
Design Is More Than Meets the Eye
Undertaking a web re-design can provide the liberating feeling of starting anew, from scratch. But, most of the time, that's not really the case. Pretty much all of the websites undergoing a re-design still have a base of existing users. So, while you do want to focus your re-design around fresh, modern and relevant elements, [...]
Beacon is Going to edUi 2018
Beacon is going to edUi 2018 in Charlottesville, VA. If you're a web professional who works with colleges, universities, libraries or museums, you should, too. In fact, we'll help you get there. Register here and receive $100 off the registration fee. Or just apply the code "Beacon" on the regular registration form to access [...]
Google Analytics: Insights That Help Drive Web Design
A quick confession. Here at Beacon, we love Google Analytics. We're data hounds. Whenever possible, we rely on insights gained from data analysis to justify website development decisions. Indeed, a lot of higher ed website redesigns benefit from taking heed of current usage patterns and audience attributes. You can learn a lot about your [...]
GDPR: What Is It? Does It Apply To Me? And So What?
If you work in digital marketing, you probably couldn't help but notice the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) mania sweeping the internet earlier this year. Indeed, before the new regulations became enforceable in May 2018, there was breathless anticipation and countless "What You Need To Know" blog posts promising the low-down on all the [...]