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16/10/2026

It's National Dictionary Day! Celebrated on 16 October, it honours Noah Webster, who published the first major American dictionary in 1828, and celebrates the value of vocabulary and clear language.

For academics, years of research can boil down to a handful of precise terms, and getting the wording right is often the difference between a project that lands with its audience and one that gets lost in translation.

We spend our days thinking about words too, from the acronyms that name your project to the blog posts that explain your findings to people outside your field.

A well-chosen word deserves a well-earned celebration.

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08/10/2026

A research project without a content plan is a story nobody gets to read.

Between funding applications, fieldwork and analysis, writing rarely makes it to the top of the list, yet it is often the thing that determines whether your findings reach anyone beyond your immediate team.

Our content creation plans take that pressure off. Whether you need one or two short blogs a month or longer pieces that dig into a complex subject, we build a plan around your project's timeline and turn your research into content that people want to read.

Custom plans are available too, in case your project needs something a little different.

▶️ https://www.pixelshrink.com/digital-marketing/content-creation/

06/10/2026

Nottingham CEDI needed a website that could make complex sustainability research feel approachable rather than intimidating.

The Nottingham Climate Emergency Design Initiative brings together built environment professionals working towards a zero carbon future for the city. It was initiated by the University of Nottingham and is backed by Nottingham City Council's Carbon Neutral Nottingham 2028 push.

Their guidance documents needed a home, but download pages are often dull and easy to ignore. We built a site that attractively showcases every resource, with dark mode and light mode options so visitors can choose how to browse.

We also developed CEDI's logo further, combining 3D building blocks with a tick, and repeated that motif throughout the site as a visual thread that ties everything together.

The result is a resource that grows alongside the initiative, with newsletter sign-up built in as the main call to action so CEDI's network keeps expanding.

▶️ https://www.pixelshrink.com/work/nottingham-cedi-architecture-web-design/

02/10/2026

Naming your research project is trickier than it looks.

Get it wrong and you end up with an acronym nobody remembers, or a title that says nothing about what you actually do. But when you get it right your project becomes instantly recognisable to the people who need to find it.

Our project naming service blends creativity with strategic thinking, helping you land on a name and acronym that captures attention and stays relevant for the life of your project and beyond.

Not every acronym needs to spell something clever, but the best ones do more than label your work, they tell people what to expect from it.

Thinking about what to call your next project?

▶️ https://www.pixelshrink.com/research-marketing/project-naming/

01/10/2026

I'm very happy to be supporting WP Accessibility Day again in October alongside speakers from all around the world. This time, I'll be one of the presenters of the online event, on the morning of Thursday 8th October from 10am-1pm.

If you're a bit techie and interested in what's going on around making websites more accessible, it's well worth dropping in.

30/09/2026

We just registered for WordPress Accessibility Day, a free, virtual 24-hour conference on WordPress accessibility taking place October 7-8, and you should too! Get your free ticket at wpaccessibility.day/2026/.

Plus we'll be presenting the speakers on Thursday morning UK time! WPA11yDay

WordPress Accessibility Day is a free 24-hour global event dedicated to addressing website accessibility in WordPress. October 7-8, 2026.

30/09/2026

We just registered for WordPress Accessibility Day, a free, virtual 24-hour conference on WordPress accessibility taking place October 7-8, and you should too! Get your free ticket at wpaccessibility.day/2026/. Plus we'll be presenting the speakers on Thursday morning UK time!

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WordPress Accessibility Day is a free 24-hour global event dedicated to addressing website accessibility in WordPress. October 7-8, 2026.

29/09/2026

Portfolio: Images of Research

Not every website lives on a browser tab - some live on a wall.

The University of Strathclyde runs the Images of Research competition every year, challenging researchers to capture their work in a single striking image. It's exactly the kind of content that deserves to be seen by more than just an academic audience, so the university wanted to display it on digital touchscreen kiosks around the city of Glasgow.

Touchscreen kiosks come with their own rules. There’s no mouse or keyboard, and visitors might only give you a few seconds before moving on. We built an application that lets people browse dozens of competition images by year or subject, with a clear and consistent interface designed for fingers instead of cursors. We also helped categorise the material carefully, so an onscreen keyboard was never needed.

The resulting researchers' work was out of the journal and onto the street.

▶️ pixelshrink.com/work/images-of-research-touchscreen-kiosk-web-design/

25/09/2026

Happy European Researchers' Night!

Held across Europe every September, European Researchers' Night celebrates the people behind the discoveries - the researchers driving innovation and impact, often for years, long before (and after) the headlines.

That "after" bit is what we think about a lot. So many brilliant, fixed-term projects go quiet the moment the funding ends, and with them goes years of impact. Results are left to gather dust in a journal few outside academia will ever read.

Our project legacy services exist to solve exactly that problem with ongoing web hosting, social media posting, brochures and research summaries, and website archiving. That means your findings keep reaching people long after the project itself has wrapped up.

Tonight, we're celebrating every researcher whose work deserves to outlive its funding.

▶️pixelshrink.com/research-marketing/project-legacy/