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Reasons to create a domain redirect

Well-designed user experiences work behind the scenes, with the design details often going unnoticed by the end user. Domain redirects can be essential to customer satisfaction and positively reinforce a good user experience. Here are scenarios where this plays out.

Lottie Animations and Webflow

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.

How to draw a path with fill none in Adobe After Effects

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...

Add a copyright year programmatically to your website footer

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.

How do I learn the basics of web design?

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...

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