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.
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...
LinkedIn, like most social networks, allow users to embed posts into social streams and unto their websites. Here's how.
Recently I created an interactive animation in Adobe Animate. The Adobe Animate part was relatively straightforward, but embedding the exported code into my WordPress website was tricky. This blog post shares what I learned and additional resources I found helpful.
In this post, I share how I created an HTML5 canvas that allows users to drag and drop symbols with their mouse or finger on the canvas using Adobe Animate.
Bring psychological terms, design principles, and UX concepts into your web and product designs. Learn about the Anchor Effect, Decision Fatigue, Serial Position Effect, Gamification, and more in this UX Glossary by Peter Ramsey.
This is my list of "recommend because I use them dozens of times a day" key commands for designers working on Apple computers.
A discussion of why you may choose to use relative or absolute internal links in your WordPress blog website. Explore the pros and cons.