Diagram showing three steps: 1. a guitar, 2. an audio interface, 3. the Tone3000 website
The Web platform has come along way. You can play your guitar through a website now.
It's not a metaphor. The Web is actually a guitar amp now.
www.silverorange.com/blog/the-web...
11.03.2026 16:06
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Maureen Holland | Writer & Web Developer
Our lead front-end developer maureenholland.ca shared a nice recap of her experience at the #ffconf web conference: hachyderm.io/@maureenholl...
27.02.2026 16:40
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silverorange job openings
silverorangeΒ designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.
We're hiring for two remote-first web development positions in Canada. One is focused on #frontend and the other on #python. www.silverorange.com/job
19.02.2026 16:02
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The Wonderful World of Web Feeds - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
Front-end web developer extraordinaire and silverorange slice, maureenholland.ca, has written a great post for the HTMhell Advent Calendar again this year. Her topic is one close to our hearts: Wonderful World of Web Feeds!
htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
www.silverorange.com/blog/another...
16.12.2025 14:04
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silverorange digest Fall 2025 Edition
In this edition of the silverorange digest: Weβve redesigned our own website Recent client work with Kindsight and EM:RAP Our brush with TV fame on The Pitt and MasterChef Canada A round up of article...
We've published a bit of a general news update from silverorange:
π¨ Weβve redesigned our own website
ποΈ Recent client work with Kindsight and EM:RAP
πΊ Our brush with TV fame on The Pitt and MasterChef Canada
π A round up of articles weβve published
www.silverorange.com/blog/digest-...
15.10.2025 15:13
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What does it mean to be responsive?
A typical approach to responsive web design is βmobile-firstβ. Get the essentials right for the smallest canvas and then work up to the desktop design. But how responsive is your design to user font s...
Responsive web design is about more than screen width. Our lead front-end developer Maureen wrote about how internationally-aware fonts, support for dark mode, and accommodations for color and motion preferences are all part of being responsive to people's needs: www.silverorange.com/blog/what-do...
25.09.2025 13:47
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How to Choose the Best Programming Languages, Libraries, and Patterns
In my first few years learning software development and building applications, I was quite interested in finding the best programming language, platform, libraries, frameworks, patterns, and architect...
Ryan Kay, a developer on our app team focused on Android and backend development, shares his Law of Suitability, and how it can help you identify the best water bottle, programming language, or development framework.
www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-...
11.08.2025 18:52
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Screenshot from neal.fun Internet Roadtrip website showing Google Maps street view with yellow victorian-style house labeled "silverorange HQ"
Hey, @neal.fun's delightful crowd-driven neal.fun/internet-roadtrip drove by the silverorange offices on Prince Edward Island! π
19.06.2025 14:24
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We actually have a *signed copy* of Jakob Nielsen's Designing Web Usability in our office!
04.06.2025 22:37
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GAAD
Thursday, May 15, 2025, help us celebrate the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, ...
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day! #gaad accessibility.day
Here are a few accessibility resources weβve been appreciating recently:
hidde.blog/a11y-faq/
makeitfable.com/article/how-...
www.tpgi.com/are-you-cond...
tetralogical.com/blog/categor...
practical-accessibility.today
15.05.2025 16:45
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Learning Accessibility as a Designer
silverorangeΒ designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.
Helen, a great designer here at silverorange, has shared her experience with Sara Soueidanβs practical-accessibility.today course. It's targeted for developers, but it's critical for designers to understand the fundamental accessibility issues in the web. #gaad
www.silverorange.com/blog/practic...
14.05.2025 16:24
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Accessibility in our hiring process
silverorangeΒ designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day #gaad is happening this week and we're sharing a bit of how accessibility factors into our work at silverorange.
Our Director of People Management, Nikki Mifflen-Mitchell, has written about Accessibility in our hiring process: www.silverorange.com/blog/accessi...
12.05.2025 12:50
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Gild Just One Lily β Smashing Magazine
βGilding the lilyβ isnβt always bad. In design, a touch of metaphorical gold β a subtle animated transition, a hint of color, or added depth in a drop shadow β can help communicate a level of care and...
The phrase "gild the lily" implies unnecessary ornamentation.
Our Creative Director, Steven Garrity, has written for Smashing Magazine to encourage you that a little touch of what might seem like unnecessary ornamentation in design is exactly what you need.
smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/gild...
11.04.2025 12:20
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You noticed! β€οΈ
27.03.2025 16:45
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silverorange | building powerful web-based systems
silverorangeΒ designs and develops simple yet powerful web and mobile applications.
Weβve redesigned our silverorange.com website, bringing it into its fifth era. In this redesign, we've leaned on the illustration talents of one of our great designers, Jacky Gilbertson who wrote about the design, the process, and a few (literal) easter eggs:
www.silverorange.com/blog/website...
27.03.2025 14:59
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Why silverorange?
The collective thoughts of web design and development firm silverorange
Our Director of People Management, Nikki, on how and why she came to work at silverorange (we're so glad she did!)
blog.silverorange.com/why-silveror...
28.01.2025 16:46
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You donβt need the isOpen class - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
On day 16 Maureen Holland tells us why we donβt need the isOpen class. #HTMHellAdventCalendar
htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
16.12.2024 13:11
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You donβt need the isOpen class - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
Our own Maureen Holland has contributed to the 2024 #HTMHell Advent Calendar: htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
Itβs great to see Maureenβs expertise on display in the great company of writers like John Allsopp, LΓ©onie Watson, and many others.
blog.silverorange.com/htmhell
16.12.2024 17:32
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At silverorange, we use our Employee of the Year to highlight something (not an employee) that we loved about the year. In 2024, our Employee of the Year was the amazing crochet slices that Joseβs partner Anita made for *all* of us.
02.12.2024 19:52
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As part of our (remote) company retreat this week, we're seeing how far 38 of us can collectively walk.
In Lord of the Rings terms, we've made it 10% of the way from The Shire to Mordor in 2 days.
28.11.2024 13:33
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