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The 7 Step Process I Used To Build A Landing Page To Promote My Book
#creation#coding
A custom landing page is an invaluable asset to have as a creator online. It acts as your own little space on the internet to promote something you’ve created. …
6 Things Pokémon Cards Will Teach You About Design
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Pokémon cards are so hot right now! According to nintendolife.com, the Pokémon company sold 3.7 billion cards in 2020 + 2021. Even though the Pokémon …
How To Add A Social Media Share Bar In Jekyll
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Adding a social media share bar at the beginning or end of each post is a great way to encourage readers to share your content on social media. In the past when …
How To Add Related Posts In Jekyll To Increase Engagement
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Including links to related posts at the end of each post is a great way to keep users engaged with your content. With a WordPress website, you can install a …
10 Ways I Use Figma As A Creator
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As a creator, I use Figma every day and I can honestly say it’s 10x’ed my creation process. By working in one application to do many different types of tasks, I …
How To Never Run Out Of Ideas As A Designer
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As a designer, your value comes from the things you create. Your “job currency” is creativity. With that said it’s hard to constantly generate ideas. There is …
A Walkthrough Of My Obsidian Setup
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I last wrote about my Obsidian Setup way back in March. I was still finding my feet with Obsidian and trying lots of different things to see what worked well …
UI Design Patterns - Character Limits
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Character limits are used on text fields to indicate the maximum amount of characters that can be entered into that field. These components are important as …
How To Improve The Usability Of Password Fields
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Password fields are a necessity if you’re designing a login or sign-up form for your application. As common as these types of fields are, they can be …
Design A Website From Scratch In 7 Steps
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Designing an entire website can seem like a big challenge. You need to think about all the pages, the content on each page, how it’ll be designed, what colors …
Mind Maps - The Ultimate Getting Started Tool
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Mind maps are a powerful tool for getting started with project planning, learning something new, or even making decisions. They help you to overcome the hurdle …
Jekyll - Add Related Posts At The End Of A Post
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At the end of a blog post, it’s a good idea to recommend similar posts to your readers. This helps them to find more great content on your website easily. I …
How To Never Be Bored Again
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Feeling “bored” can result in a complete lack of motivation. You don’t have the drive to pick something from your list of chores. You can’t bring yourself to do …
Jekyll - Add An Affiliate Disclaimer To Specific Posts
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On this website some of the links used are affiliate links. To let people know this, I include a disclaimer at the top of relevant pages. Instead of manually …
Establish A Shut Down Routine For Maximum Clarity
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A shutdown routine is something you do at the end of your workday that tells your brain, I’m finished with work today. By making a shut down routine part of …
5 Ways For A UI Designer To Come Up With Ideas
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As a UI Designer, you are essentially paid for your ideas. They are your greatest source of value. Because of this, your job is dependent on always creating …
Be Consistent - That Is Your One Thing
#productivity
It’s easy to be bombarded by things you should work on or should do. Things from work, things in your life, things you read on social media. This can cause …
Creative Constraints Are Good For You
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We all need constraints to operate effectively. In the world of creators, creative constraints allow us to focus our energy and concentration in the right …
Life Contexts - Cues To Differentiate Between Work And Home
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As one of the many people now working from home, I found the process difficult at first. I couldn’t switch my mind between my day job, my side-projects, and …
The Creator's Philosophy - Create Once Use Many Times
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In the world of content creation, we’re always creating new things. New blog posts, new videos, podcasts, and social media posts. It can seem like an endless …
Why You Should Schedule Time For Creativity
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The whole idea of creativity and being creative is underestimated in today’s world. We all think we’re not creative or can’t think of original ideas but that’s …
UI Design Patterns - How To Write Effective Error Messages
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Any well-designed application should have good error messages. When I say good error messages I’m not talking about a message like “Critical Error …
Jekyll - Add Estimated Reading Time To Posts
#coding
Adding the estimated reading time of your article provides valuable context for readers. They can decide if they want to read your article now or bookmark it …
How To Make Your Productivity Systems More Efficient
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How we live our lives and the systems we use to keep on top of things is always changing. As we find new helpful nuggets of advice, we adopt those into our …
Jekyll - How To Enable Incremental Regeneration To Speed Up Build Times
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A great tip for speeding up the build time of your Jekyll blog is to make use of the incremental regeneration feature. This process will only generate the pages …