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A Survival Guide to Public Wi-Fi

A Survival Guide to Public Wi-Fi

By Art Williams

Wi-Fi is everywhere so most of us don’t think twice about connecting to our local coffee shop and surfing the world wide web.  But the ubiquity of Wi-Fi has created a false sense of security. In reality, connecting to public Wi-Fi can open your device up to being hacked or expose data from sites you access as the packets of data fly around the air.   To be prepared for public Wi-Fi it is important to have good situational awareness, understanding where the threats are coming from and what d
Recolor Artwork in Seconds With Adobe Illustrator

Recolor Artwork in Seconds With Adobe Illustrator

By Josh Norman

If you’ve ever wanted to randomly assign colors from a set color palette to multiple objects in an Illustrator file quickly, the solution is lurking in the “Edit” menu: Recolor Artwork. In this video, I’ll show you my workflow for creating a randomly-colored collection of objects that will hopefully save you both time and a little sanity.    
New Year, New Knowledge!

New Year, New Knowledge!

By Ashley Landers

To kickoff 2020, here are 10 things you might not have known about Texas Creative. 1. We’re turning 35. We were founded by our current President, Brian Eickhoff, in 1985 as a graphic design studio. Over the years, Brian has touched many brands throughout Texas and beyond. For some of his proudest, give us a call to schedule a visit – we’ll gladly walk you through our “walls of fame.” 2. We’re a full-service marketing and advertising firm. While our DNA is rooted in graphic design, we
2020: New Year, New Advertising.

2020: New Year, New Advertising.

By Texas Creative

2019 has been a really great year at Texas Creative, from winning new accounts, knocking out some simply amazing creative campaigns, optimizing media plans, to building some of the most innovative websites in our portfolio. However, just like in my personal life, as we embark on a new year, why not spend a few moments reflecting on what kind of resolutions I want to encourage my clients (and myself) to strive for in the coming months?  Stick to the Plan One of the things that is most important
Getting Started: React in Drupal 8

Getting Started: React in Drupal 8

By Texas Creative

So you heard of React, the JavaScript library developed by Facebook for creating fast and interactive user interfaces, and thought “Wow! It would be awesome if I could use this with Drupal.” Well, today I will show you exactly how you can add React to any Drupal site, as well as provide you a module with all the boilerplate code required to get you up and running with React as quickly as possible. Before getting started, we need to understand decoupling. Decoupling is the idea of separating