Articles by Brian Moloney

Is your nonprofit website helping or hurting your mission? This post explores 10 common nonprofit web design problems—like outdated tools, poor mobile usability, and inaccessible content—and how a nonprofit web designer can help fix them so your site becomes a true asset for growth, fundraising, and community engagement.

A hospital’s website is more than a digital presence—it’s a critical touchpoint for patients. In healthcare, clarity, compliance, and usability aren't optional—they're essential.

Strategic web design in Chicago empowers nonprofits to build trust, engage communities, and drive impact, without compromising quality or blowing the budget.

Chicago’s thriving sports tourism scene is driving a surge in online traffic, but many local businesses aren’t digitally prepared. As fan-driven demand grows, outdated websites risk losing customers. This blog explores how more brilliant eCommerce design can turn that challenge into an opportunity.

Chicago’s small businesses power the local economy—a strong website is essential in today’s digital world. This guide explores what to know before starting website development in Chicago.

In a 31 page ruling just handed down by the US District Court, Judge Mark Pittman has determined that restrictions on using third-party web technologies are unlawful.

There are two main reasons websites are popping up cookie disclosures - the CCPA and GDPR - two sets of privacy laws that may (or may not) apply to your website.

The short answer:  the same way as any project

In 2003, Harvard Business Review published a short article entitled "Wanted: Chief Ignorance Officer" in which the author described the benefits of ignorance.  Long considered a detriment, this article cataloged all the advantages of ignorance.

I recently visited the website random.org, which is a free/fee-based generator of random numbers.  It's been around for a long time - since 1998.  It made me revisit the concept of randomness and how oddly hard it is to achieve. Why is randomness important? It's amazing how many things rely…

A new study accepted for publication in the British Journal of General Practice asserts that the majority of general practice websites contain content well above the recommended reading level for online content. The study analyzed 3,823 pages of content scraped from 813 Scottish general practice websites.  Analysis showed that 2,942 pages…

Whenever I go to a website, my eyes go immediately to the year. You'd be surprised how many websites say 2006 or 2002 or even 1999. At best, is demonstrates no attention to details and at worst it proclaims the site as abandoned. At Imaginary, we have our site and...

Imaginary has implemented two high tech tools to foster a decidedly low tech essential for success - frequent and productive client collaboration.

2019 was an interesting year in website accessibility.  The simple and elegant premise of accessibility has been pushed aside by aggressive law firms, miserly corporations and apathetic regulatory agencies. In October the Supreme Court decided not to hear the appeal of Guillermo Robles v. Domino’s Pizza LLC.  The background is...

In the world of web development, particularly open source web development, there are two fundamental requirements that you should ask of any new web development vendor – code isolation and server isolation.  Whenever possible, you must insist that the underlying code that runs your website is isolated and under your...

It boils down to this. An upgrade costs money, sometimes a lot of money, but the result has no visible outcome. In fact, in many cases the only outcome is an assurance that you've reduced the probability of attack, intrusion, breach and related unpleasantness. By any measure, that's a tough...

Imaginary Landscape Ranked Among the Top Five Web Developers in Chicago and Among the Top Python and Django Web Developers Worldwide.

Independent OWASP Top 10 Security Risk Audit for Python-based Websites.

Although no formal set of guidelines have been released, website owners are encouraged to immediately comply with level A and AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as published by the World Wide Web Consortium. Aggressive law firms have had success bringing suit against organizations whose websites are not...

Django is being used by corporations worldwide.  Every day, Imaginary does its part to increase this footprint by deploying Django websites and applications to our clients. As a result, Django is being exposed to greater numbers of end users. I'm not talking end user developers.  I'm talking Samantha in marketing...

This week, Google announced a radically new way of handling human detection with a revamped reCAPTCHA.  This new iteration, called No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA replaces the hard-to-read distorted text image transcription with a simple checkbox. We've never been big fans of CAPTCHA technology.  It transfers the burdeon of proof from the server to...

A 2014 study released by the Harvard Law Review shows that an alarming number of hyperlinks go bad in a surprisingly short time. Link Rot has been a problem from the very beginning of the web.  Over time, websites can come-and-go and redesigns can change the location of content -...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recently announced their 2015 nominees.  At the same time, they opened up a Fan Voting application so that music fans across the world could make their selections known. Rock Hall approached Imaginary a couple weeks prior and asked if we could design an...

Below is a PDF of the slides for today's DjangoCon US presentation, "Trial By Fire: Real World Performance Optimization" by Joe Jasinski and Dan Johnson (Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - Track 2). Presentation Slides