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I find myself surprised when I discover that various InDesign features that I use religiously are features unused by other graphic designers. Enter the preflight panel. Combing through your InDesign documents for errors used to be a long and tedious process, but the preflight panel can automate the entire process based on presets that you can create. Starting with InDesign CS4, there has been a somewhat secret, but powerful, preflight panel. It’s usually turned on automatically, (but I tend to

Have you ever Googled yourself? A majority of companies aren’t pleased with the results that they find when they Google themselves, and with good reason. Your company's online presence can make or break you. What happens to pop up during a Google search that’s aimed at your company can bring you a new client or a lost opportunity. Google is the best friend to many, which isn’t a huge secret to anyone considering 83% of online searches happen through Google. However, 91% of online adul

“How was your day?” If your answer is, “Same as yesterday,” you definitely don’t work here. A day in the life of a vibrant marketing firm like ours is, to say the very least, diverse. Each is a one-off, replete with unique challenges and new opportunities to wrap our minds around the marketing needs of a myriad of different businesses, industries, services and philanthropies. If variety is the spice of life, we’re one very zesty organization. On a daily basis, we’re channeling our

Sometimes when working with Drupal’s exposed forms, you might get stuck with a field type that you don’t want. Often times you can find a module to help improve the style or functionality of these forms. However, in some cases using a module will not be available and you will have to make modifications directly to the code. If you are just getting started with Drupal, and come from a JavaScript background, this will clearly be the easiest method for you. If you are familiar with PHP and want

After 10 months of remission, my CANCER is back. When you get the news that it’s returned, you think that the results are incorrect; you did all of the treatments to fight the cancer, how and why is it back?. Then you have to move forward and plan for how to fight this yet again. My plan is this: doctors visits, bloodwork and chemo treatments to attack the cancer again, and this time, conquer it.     Because of the last two and a half years of my life, I have come in contac