Tips & Tricks
Adobe Illustrator: Images Exporting Slightly Blurry
Every once in a while, I notice that my image proofs appear slightly blurry when exporting something for the web from Adobe Illustrator. Imagery and designs look crisp in-program, but after exporting they have the slightest bit of blur. I would notice this when placing proofs in an email client and at first I thought…
Read MoreSearching for the Best Standup Desk
This whole COVID-19 pandemic forced a lot of change on many of us. For me personally, it made me start working from home full-time. At my dayshift, I perform web marketing and design for Wenatchee Valley College (WVC). Working for a big entity comes with all kinds of perks and comforts. One is a dynamic,…
Read MoreWordPress Recent Post Date On New Line
The default widget, “Recent Posts” list for WordPress is nice, but for some reason the date doesn’t skip to the next line by default. Add this to your custom css stylesheet to do so: .post-date { display: block; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; font-style: italic; }
Read MoreIllustrator: Rotate Guides
Another useful tool is the ability to rotate guides in Illustrator. You can do this by first creating a horizontal or vertical guide on your Artboard. Next, select “R” and then click anywhere on the guide. This should create a retical point. Finally, click and drag anywhere on the Artboard and watch your guide rotate…
Read MoreIllustrator: Copy Artboard + Contents
I keep forgetting this simple trick so I’m going to jot it down. In Adobe Illustrator you can copy your artboard and all of it’s content by selected the Artboard Tool and then hold down Option and click/drag the existing artboard to it’s new location. This will create a copy of the artboard dimensions and…
Read MoreVirtualBox and Internet Explorer
If you’re a web designer and on a Mac like me, then you’ve probably experienced the difficulties that go along with testing sites in Internet Explorer. There are those great resources out there like BrowserStack and Adobe Browser Labs (sadly discontinued), but what if you don’t want to pay $20 bucks a month just to test…
Read MoreAdd Spaces to your Dock Menu
Mac used to support spaces in the Dock menu on old OS versions, but for some reason that feature has been removed in the more recent renditions. When you have a lot of apps sitting in the Dock, like I do, it can be a little cumbersome when things get crowded. So that’s why I thought I’d…
Read MorePosition: Absolute; (Centered)
It’s pretty easy to center a relatively positioned div: #div { position: relative; margin: 0 auto; } However, sometimes centering a div that has an absolute position can be a little tricky. Here’s a workaround that I’ve been using that seems to get the job done. Say you have a logo that you want to center in…
Read MoreValidated by the Validator
I remember when I first started making websites, I lived by the Validator. It was code up a site, check the validator, make adjustments, check the validator; Validate, Validate, Validate! It more or less became this goal to slap a W3C logo on the footer of every site I made. To my dismay, I learned that…
Read MoreHello world! For real…
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! Don’t tell me what to do, WordPress! Ok fine, here it goes… What’s up world? This is my first notebook entry on the ol’ WordPress engine. It took me long enough, but I finally decided I had better come up…
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