While designing and building my first Webflow website, I ran into the issue that the Lottie files I created and exported using Bodymovin and LottieFiles from within Adobe After Effects included a blank last frame. This meant that looping was not smooth, and the animation became blank after playing. These two solutions worked for me.
On June 20, 2023, Bitbucket issued two new SSH host keys and started replacing the current host keys. This caused my Terminal access to throw a "Warning: Remote Host Identification has changed!" error. Here's how I changed the fingerprints.
Have you ever wondered how to change your brush size in Photoshop using key commands and your mouse or wand? Here's how to adjust your brush size without using the Brush Options Panel.
As a newbie in a complex design program, sometimes simple tasks are difficult. If you're looking for an easy way to find the size of your shape in After Effects, there's a simple way.
As a beginner in After Effects, sometimes simple tasks are very challenging. Case in point: creating a path with no fill is not completed like in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. However, don't worry; making a path instead of a shape in Adobe Effects is still simple, but the option is a bit hidden. This short video tutorial shows you how to select a Fill of None for a path or shape in Adobe After...
Especially in January, you start thinking about copyrights on your websites. This is one of those maintenance tasks ripe for a programmatic solution. No reason to manually update the years on your website's copyright year after year. Here are a few good options for creating an automatically updating copyright year on your website.
There's an easy fix. Instead of using the marketing email's Unsubscribe link, use Gmail's Unsubscribe functionality! Here's how.
Recently a client asked me if I had any recommendations for resources, classes, or tips for how to learn the basics of web design. This particular client is an employee of a company utilizing HubSpot for their blog. She is tasked with making landing pages and updating blog posts in HubSpot and is eager to learn more about websites and code. If this sounds like you, then you'll enjoy these...
Today, I was working on adding the question "How did you hear about us" to a client's Shopify store. Fortunately, Shopify has a great document with how-to-steps "Ask how customers heard about your store." This Shopify document walks you through how to add a snippet to your code base, include the snippet in your cart, update configurations, make the form a required element, and add this customer...
If you're a Mac user and have updated your macOS recently, you may need to run this command in your Terminal to keep using Git commands.