April 8, 2025

Mastering YouTube Description Formatting: How to Bold Text, Add Social Media Links & Optimize Your Content

By Kelly Barkhurst

11 Min read

08April

In this post, we dive into the art of formatting YouTube descriptions to make your content stand out. Learn how to bold text using simple asterisks, organize your description with lines and icons, and optimize your social media links for better visibility. With these tips, you'll elevate your YouTube video descriptions to be more engaging, professional, and accessible for your audience.

February 19, 2025

Failing to successfully make an image of an old server on Rackspace and move it to Digital Ocean

By Kelly Barkhurst

8 Min read

19February

This post is my notes delving into Dev Ops with minimal success; however, I'm posting it because I'm hopeful that some of the research I found and mistakes I made will help someone else.

February 10, 2025

What’s my Google Business’s CID number?

By Kelly Barkhurst

6 Min read

10February

If your business exists on Google, it has an assigned unique Customer Identification number, known as a CID number. Here's how to find your CID#.

February 10, 2025

How to Merge two Google Business Profiles

By Kelly Barkhurst

2 Min read

How do I merge two google business profiles. You contact Google Customer Support to do this. Here's the link.

February 4, 2025

Scaling in Illustrator?

By Kelly Barkhurst

5 Min read

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04February

When you scale your Artboard or object in Adobe Illustrator, don't forget that you can scale by different reference points, nine to be exact! Here's how.

January 24, 2025

Serving Auto-Placed Google Ads? Make sure you’ve added this…

By Kelly Barkhurst

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24January

We've all been there. We're on a blog, trying to read an article or make a recipe and we're bombarded with Google Ads that are hardly separated from the content. Yikes! Here's how to fix that.

January 21, 2025

Illustrator created SVGs: view the code and more

By Kelly Barkhurst

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21January

I recently created a video about including SVGs on your Squarespace website. A YouTube viewer commented and asked, "By chance, do you know how to find the code of a personal design created in Adobe Illustrator?"

The answer, is "Yes. Yes, I do, and here's how." Thank you for asking, Morgan.
So here, we go. Watch or read how below.

January 16, 2025

I can’t get my WP Snippets PHP to save

By Kelly Barkhurst

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16January

Sometimes, when I go to save a Snippets plugin code snippet I get an error that reads, "Could not update snippet. Request failed with status code 403." For me, the issue is that WAF blocked my snippet code from saving. Here's how I get my Code Snippet to save.

January 9, 2025

InDesign Text Left Alignments

By Kelly Barkhurst

12 Min read

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09January

What's the best settings to use when aligning your text to the left in InDesign? Well that depends on your goals. Here are a few options. Watch or read below.

November 15, 2024

How do I copy styles / appearance in Illustrator?

By Kelly Barkhurst

4 Min read

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15November

Here are 6 ways to do it. As frequent users of Adobe products know first-hand, each Adobe program has similarities AND lots of differences AND there's many ways to accomplish each task. The copying of styles (fx) is one such difference.