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6 Steps to Making Fillable Forms with Adobe Acrobat

By Texas Creative

With increasing efforts to go paperless, forms for almost anything can easily be turned into interactive PDFs. Whether you start with a form made with a number of applications (Word, Excel, InDesign) or a scanned paper form, Adobe Acrobat can turn it into a useable PDF form. Here are a few advantages: The form can be used with any free version of Acrobat Reader. PDF forms can be printed, saved or automatically sent by email, significantly reducing paper consumption. Easier to read: Non-legible
How to Get More Engagement on Social Media

How to Get More Engagement on Social Media

By Texas Creative

In 2008, just 10% of the US population was on social media. Today, that number has increased to 80%, with more than 3 billion people using social media worldwide. That's a lot of eyeballs. Marketers, eager to capitalize on this new medium, soon realized that social media was changing almost as fast as it was growing. New trends, features, and even platforms were coming out on a regular basis, and what worked last year (or even last month) might be rendered irrelevant overnight. Fortunately, one
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For the Design of Type

By Kelley Olmedo

It’s been noted before by my previous blog that I am an obsessive font fiend, but I have never delved into the world of font creation (though I have edited fonts here and there when a character pestered my design). As a “creative” my brain naturally gravitates towards learning new skills, new programs, and new ways to be creative, so it was inevitable that I would find my way to trying my hand at designing a font eventually, and then here we are... In approaching font design, I discovered
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Business Leadership Styles: What’s the latest fashion?

By David Parker

Along with the returning of the swallows and the running of the grunions, there’s another momentous natural phenomenon that occurs without fail on an annual basis: the releasing of the bull. Also known as the publication of the latest New York Times bestseller introducing a revolutionary, new, can’t miss system/philosophy/religion for business success and leadership. Through the years, we’ve been told by the gurus of attaining business nirvana to deal artfully, tip our points, release our
Website trouble? Shoot. Two Steps for a faster fix.

Website trouble? Shoot. Two Steps for a faster fix.

By Art Williams

If you’ve owned a site long enough, you have probably had the experience where one day you visit the site and something is out of place or isn’t working exactly as it worked before.  Besides wondering how this happened, you probably want the issue fixed as quickly as possible.  This article will give you a couple of basic steps that will increase the likelihood of a quick resolution. This, in turn, should minimize any potential disruptions to your business operations and save you o