A blog by Kelly Barkhurst featuring articles about Full Stack Design and Full Stack Development.
Noticed a mysterious "T" icon on your InDesign images? Adobe’s new AI alt-text feature is officially here, but it’s causing a major headache for designers: unwanted "AI-generated" tooltips in Acrobat. Learn how to reclaim your professional reputation, disable the automation, and keep your PDFs accessible without the digital clutter.
Stuck with an unclickable element in InDesign? Whether you're a new graphic designer or a web dev, learn how to troubleshoot "locked" objects by mastering the logic of Linked Assets and Parent Pages.
Tired of closing the same Microsoft OneDrive modal every time you restart your Mac? If you’re a Google Drive power user, those startup popups are just digital clutter. Here is a 60-second "sanity fix" to clean up your background processes and reclaim your productivity using macOS System Settings.
How to create anchor hyperlinks that work outside of Wix Studio menus for your website. Custom Velo and CSS solution.
Stop manually writing ALL your SEO data. Learn how I used Gemini to parse Wix Studio CMS data (JSON and all) to generate 60+ unique, high-conversion meta descriptions in minutes. A perfect workflow for designers scaling their technical SEO.
You can now open and edit PDFs directly in InDesign 2026 without a single extra subscription. It’s a massive "YAY" for designers, but it’s not foolproof. Discover what survives the conversion and what you'll have to rebuild from scratch.
Here are the meta descriptions for your WordPress blog post and the push notification copy for PushEngage, incorporating the key SEO benefits from your tutorial. 📝 WordPress Meta Description Improve your Webflow SEO in seconds! Learn how to use the "Convert to" tool to transform standard text blocks into semantic H2 and H3 headings. This simple right-click trick helps search bots read your...
When a client in his 80s reached out, his life’s work—an 800-page interactive genealogy book—was at a standstill. A cryptic Adobe error was blocking his family videos and music on a legacy Windows 7 machine, and even a home-tech visit couldn't fix it. Discover the simple 'downgrade' workaround, the file-sharing trick we used across state lines, and how to stop Adobe from 'breaking' itself again...
Clipping mask or layer mask? I’m using a copycat design of The Economist to show you how both techniques work for high-end magazine styles.
When a simple centered logo breaks your Wix Studio Mega Menu, "standard" CSS rules don't always apply. After battling rewritten IDs, unreachable JavaScript hooks, and AI-driven hallucinations, I found a stable CSS solution. Here is the deep dive into why Wix Studio's React-based rendering breaks traditional positioning and how to fix it using pointer-events and custom classes