Sal Talash — Field notes on the web https://sal-talash.vercel.app/ Sal Talash, founder of UOVA, keeps six numbered field notes on the web: type and colour, real or AI imagery, Google’s AI Overviews, AI crawlers and robots.txt, a .ca domain, and free help for starting a company in Toronto. en-ca Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Sal Talash: Two typefaces, one accent colour: a type and colour system a small brand can actually keep https://sal-talash.vercel.app/notes/type-and-colour-for-small-brands/ https://sal-talash.vercel.app/notes/type-and-colour-for-small-brands/ Sal Talash Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Type & colour How to choose fonts and a palette that survive a real website, real signage and a real Instagram grid, with the accessibility numbers that keep them honest. Sal Talash: Real photography or AI imagery? A rule for every image on a small-business website https://sal-talash.vercel.app/notes/photography-or-ai-imagery/ https://sal-talash.vercel.app/notes/photography-or-ai-imagery/ Sal Talash Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Images Where generated images help, where they quietly damage trust, and what Google and the provenance standards now expect you to disclose. Sal Talash: Should your business use a .ca domain? Who can register one, how, and how not to lose it https://sal-talash.vercel.app/notes/register-a-ca-domain/ https://sal-talash.vercel.app/notes/register-a-ca-domain/ Sal Talash Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Domains CIRA's Canadian Presence Requirements in plain language, why you buy through a registrar, what French accented names involve, and the expiry timeline every owner should know before the renewal email goes to spam. Sal Talash: How a small business shows up in Google's AI Overviews (it is less mysterious than it sounds) https://sal-talash.vercel.app/notes/google-ai-overviews-small-business/ https://sal-talash.vercel.app/notes/google-ai-overviews-small-business/ Sal Talash Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Search Google says there is no special file, no special markup and no special trick. What it does say, what it leaves out, and where I would spend the time instead. Sal Talash: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended: a robots.txt guide to AI crawlers for people who run websites https://sal-talash.vercel.app/notes/ai-crawlers-and-robots-txt/ https://sal-talash.vercel.app/notes/ai-crawlers-and-robots-txt/ Sal Talash Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Crawlers Each AI company now runs several bots with different jobs. Blocking the wrong one can remove you from AI search while doing nothing about training. Here is what each token controls, from the vendors' own documentation. Sal Talash: Starting a company in Toronto? The public help that costs little or nothing https://sal-talash.vercel.app/notes/free-help-starting-a-company-in-toronto/ https://sal-talash.vercel.app/notes/free-help-starting-a-company-in-toronto/ Sal Talash Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Toronto City consultations, a library card that opens a 3D printer, a $60 registration and a startup loan programme with mentoring attached: what the official pages actually offer, and what they do not.