“How to” blog posts about graphic design, web development, and software and tools that help designers and developers be productive.
What task should you immediately complete after launching your new website? Hint, it helps all your hard work designing, coding, and writing be found by end-users via search. My design studio provides this behind-the-scenes step for our clients as part of our best practice and SEO tasks. So, do you know what "this step" might be, or are you still wondering? Read this post to find out the answer.
Ever wanted to better organize your Google Chrome extensions? Yep, me too! Here's a quick few tips to pin and arrange your most frequently used Google Chrome extensions in your browser.
Learning the nuances of the Illustrator pen tool takes time and practice. Many years ago, I found an exercise created by Belgian-based web/graphic designer, Veerle. I've often used her exercise as an in-class project for my beginner design students. This post shares tips and provides videos of completing this beginner pen tool exercise.
This post is based on the skills and exercises I teach my beginner design students during a project where we make two-letter logotypes using our initials. Watch videos and get how-to tips for making your own initial/monogram logo.
Ever wanted to delete your messages in Gmail on your iPhone by swiping? Yep, me too! My default swipe settings were configured to archive my messages, not to delete unwanted messages. Here are quick how-to instructions for setting deletion as your default swipe action for unwanted messages in the Gmail application on your iPhone.
There likely will come a time when you want to use two different computers, as two users, during a virtual meeting. Have you tried it? It often goes poorly due to audio feedback. Here are a few tricks to help you make this a success.
Sorting out how to share and save files in Adobe programs can be challenging. PDFs are incredibly confusing for new designers because they can be generic, specialized for specific apps, or interactive. This post shares insight on saving and using PDFs, specifically in Photoshop.
For newbie designers, I recognize that often simple tasks taken for granted by more experienced designers can become roadblocks. One task that can stop new design students dead in their tracks is how to get a specific font into PhotoShop. If this is you, don’t worry; adding a font to PhotoShop is relatively easy, and this post explains how to do it. The problem An online design tutorial may...
Woocommerce Shipping is both a free plugin and a free monthly service available to WordPress Woocommerce users to manage the details of shipping for their e-commerce stores. I use this USPS Woocommerce shipping option because it allows me to easily print labels, schedule package pickups, and save money on postage fees.
Especially for web designers new to Statamic, it can take some time to figure out how to manipulate Statamic-specific variables and incorporate the correct logic syntax to do what you want. Here are a few useful if statements that might help you out!