Gard’s new website: Three invaluable lessons we (re-)learned from being our own client
Your website is your digital front door, and every few years it needs a new look – not only to refresh the design but to ensure it’s as welcoming, relevant and…
Employee Spotlight: Arthur Parker
If you’re at all familiar with the Portland music scene, you probably know that every December, the Alberta Rose Theatre comes to life with the sights of a talented troupe of…
Gard’s work gets a little year-end recognition
As 2022 winds to a close, we’re taking a quick minute to spotlight just a couple more of our projects that caught the industry’s eye this year. w3 Awards for websites…
Gard scores in the 2022 Summit International Awards
Here at Gard, one of our guiding tenets has always been, “Concentrate on the work and the rest will follow.” This past year, we concentrated on quite a bit of work,…
Web design usability mistakes
What makes a good website? Is it attractive design? Lots of relevant content? Mobile-friendliness? It’s all of the above — but only if it’s underpinned with excellent usability. By Julia Stoops.…
Healing the whole person: The first tribal opioid treatment program in Oregon
Addiction impacts every aspect of a person’s life: their family, work and spirit. To address the impact of opioid addiction on their members and the community as a whole, the Confederated…
Meet Gard’s newest hires!
We’ve been busy here at Gard in recent months – so much so that we’ve added some new faces to our team. You can read a little about them here.
Farewell to Flash
Flash faded away as the web evolved to be accessible and responsive — but with Flash gone, what has been lost?
Is it time to jump on the AVIF bandwagon?
We’ve started using a WordPress plugin to convert our website images to the faster-loading WebP format. But the even faster AVIF format is coming.
Employee Spotlight: Julia Stoops, user experience designer and director of Web and Digital
What do painting, philosophy, teaching and fiction writing have to do with user experience design? Quite a bit, apparently, when it all underpins website strategy and design.
