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A place where we discuss the communication industry and give our insights on advertising, website development, graphic design and strategic planning.

Category:Web Development
The Joys and Trials of Website Adoptions
By Art Williams
It’s not uncommon for the maintenance of a website to change from one agency or freelancer to another. At Texas Creative, we affectionately refer to these as “adopted” websites. And while we have no intention of pushing this analogy too far, adopting the work of someone else into your family is both a treasure and a challenge.
Whether you are the agency tasked with maintaining a website you did not develop, or the client/owner of a site asking someone new to help you with maintenance, we w

Automated form-field styling: Goodbye Times New Roman, hello Acrobat.
Have you ever had to create an Indesign document that incorporated form fields spread across many pages? Has a co-worker discovered you sobbing quietly at your desk while manually updating font styles using acrobat’s “Prepare Forms” tool? Well, if you said “No” or “What the H$%# are you talking about” then read no more.
If you answered “Yes!”, I’m sorry you have to work on forms, but hopefully, this will save you a ton of time.
I recently discovered a simple Javas

7 Tips That Will Make You a Stronger Presenter
By Texas Creative
Some people live for giving presentations, while most people consider it their worst nightmare. In fact, the fear of public speaking is consistently listed as one of the most common fears people have. Whichever category you fall under, presenting to an audience is bound to occur at some time or another in your career. The challenge of facilitating remarkable presentations can be conquered with these 7 tips.
1. Prepare
Always take the time to prepare. You should never wait until the last minute t

Category:Interdepartmental Relations
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
By Texas Creative
Accountants have a bad name. We are seen as conservative, rigid, and demanding; and we are often perceived as a barrier to new and innovative ideas. We are usually portrayed in TV shows and movies as unapproachable and stiff, like Angela Martin in “The Office.” These stereotypes can be especially alive in advertising agencies, which are made up of creative brand makers, storytellers, designers, and web developers who are all vested in promoting a product or an idea on the behalf of the clien

Meltdown & Spectre: Intel/AMD/ARM/Apple CPU Vulnerabilities
By Art Williams
In recent weeks, the news has broken that most modern CPUs (the brains of our computing devices) have hardware vulnerabilities that allow a malicious program to steal data in the device’s memory. These vulnerabilities, named Meltdown and Spectre, are unique in that they break down the built-in barriers that secure data on the most fundamental component of any computing device, the CPU.
Who is impacted? Everyone.
The devices impacted by Meltdown and Spectre include desktop computers, laptops, s