A blog by Kelly Barkhurst featuring articles about Full Stack Design and Full Stack Development.
Achieving a perfect 100/100/100/100 across Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO on Google Lighthouse occurs on fewer than 1% of homepages globally. With just 4 hours of focused updates, I achieved a flawless score on a pediatric dentistry site I originally designed and developed in Statamic 6 years ago. Here's how.
Variable fonts promise fluid design control, but in InDesign, they can quickly trigger missing font warnings and pink highlight errors. Here is why scaling graphic frames, duplicate Adobe Fonts, and decimal point sizes break your export workflow, along with the quick settings to fix them.
Discover how to fix common WCAG accessibility violations and PageSpeed warnings on a WordPress website. From search button labels to target sizes and redundant alt text, here are practical fixes using the IBM Equal Accessibility Checker and simple PHP snippets.
Learn how to recreate dynamic, 3D marketing email animations using Photoshop. Master layer masks, vector shapes, and frame animation to design high-converting GIFs step-by-step.
Learn how to apply complementary colors to photos in Photoshop to create high-contrast, professional covers. Follow along with this step-by-step tutorial inspired by a bestselling book cover to turn standard photography into intentional, high-impact design.
Learn how designers use Photoshop and Illustrator to prepare image and vector assets for web development, bridging the gap between static print layouts and dynamic websites.
Designing in Wix Studio is smooth until small UI glitches slow you down. Here are quick, actionable fixes for menu button hover states, linear link hover easing, custom-colored social icon stacks, and case-sensitive CMS filters.
Updating images in Wix Studio can be frustrating when re-uploading identical filenames creates duplicate clutter instead of replacing the asset. Learn how to use the Wix Studio CMS to build a centralized image management system that updates graphics site-wide in seconds.
Blasting social posts directly to Google Business Profile? Hashtags, phone numbers, and social copy can trigger instant post rejections or account suspensions. Here is how to format GBP updates safely.
Master the core tools of Adobe InDesign with this simple guide for beginners. Learn how to manage pages, link text frames, place graphics, and control colors to build clean, professional publication layouts.
