Author Archives: Ellice Sanchez
About Ellice Sanchez
With her professional design experience starting in 2008, Ellice has done work for clients such as San Antonio Parks and Recreation, the City of San Antonio, Delicious Tamales, The US AirForce, Christus Santa Rosa, the University Health Systems, Sunset Station, Sushi Zushi Corporation of Texas, San Antonio Conservation Society, NIOSA, the San Antonio International Airport Concession, Representative Ivory Taylor, the Vidorra Condominiums, American GI Forums National Veterans Oureach Program, Republic National Distributing Company, Lifetime Fitness, Mr. W Fireworks, the RK Group, Pape-Dawson Engineers and other companies, working on projects ranging from signage, business cards, content management, design support, website design and coding, flyers, billboards and e-blasts.
Colour it! – Free Halloween Themed Colouring page
Well, for the sake of fun, here is a page that you can print out and colour. At the National Business Expo, I was giving away branded colouring pencils, and some people asked if I had a sheet to colour. …
How to Avoid Business Belly Flops as a Designer
I am always learning. There are times where I think a task or procedure is overkill, but then I run into a scenario where it would have been great. Sometimes, learning the hard way is the way to really nail …
CSS Pseudo Class :focus-within to Help with Keyboard Navigation Accessibility
So, are you having the trouble that your drop-down menu is not dropping down when a keyboard user tabs onto it? it can be quite problematic for the accessibility of ALL the user types on your website. If you are …
Photos from the 2026 San Antonio 48 Hour Film Project Screening
Check of the photos from the red carpet event that was at City Base Cinemas!
The Fonts I Use the Most in 2026
As a designer, I like having some style in my lettering. How wide or narrow a letter is, where the midline is, serif or san-serif? It all plays into visual communications of your words, before the brain even reads them. …
Mix and Mingle with Stars at the Annual 48 Hour Film Project Screening at City base Cinemas this Year
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – San Antonio, TX, 18 Aug 2026 San Antonio’s home-grown indie film makers will be screening their short films on the silver screen this year on August 19, 2026 at 7pm, as the local chapter of the …
Going to the 2026 National Business Expo
I normally try to find clients from Craigslist ads, or when I am lucky, I get a client referral. Occasionally, I am a masochist and I will spend countless hours working on a public entity RFP (still have not landed …
Knowing Design Tools Isn’t Enough to Make One a Designer
At my day job for an employer, there is a new hire. The boss liked her, but did not know exactly what to do with her, but he hired her anyways. (That goes to show there is always room in …
PSA – Advice to Keep Your Website Running Smoothly, and without Legal Headaches
Website technical maintenance and updates to meet new legal standards can sound boring, but it can help save you time, money, and headaches from when something goes wrong. Recently, two of my clients had issues with their website. One client …
My First Produced Short Film – Seven Minutes in Heaven
Between my motion graphics experience, photoshop experience, acting experience, I knew I could make a movie, but it is one thing to know it in one’s head, VS to prove it with actions. I have the film, Blood Stone, which …
Modernizing My Website, Going Dark
Well, I have common aspects to the websites that I make for my clients, like menus that toggle on small screens, dark mode, and current standards WCAG accessibility. But I have been too busy working on client websites, or with …
The Roll coaster of Government Entity Bidding
I actually meant to write this much sooner, but I have been just keeping my head above water. Having just finished a website, but still having another website to produce and other time sensitive design work, I thought I might …
Compatible Fonts for Comanche Language List
As part of my ancestral heritage, I was learning the Comanche alphabet. Me, being a designer wanted to look at the glyphs in Illustrator but I ran into a problem really fast: Most fonts do not carry the needed glyphs …
Problem: When WCAG Turns into a Checklist
At my job for another company (hey, who doesn’t have two jobs?), I am tasked with certifying the company’s software as WCAG compliant. From a theoretical point of view it should be easy. I should be able to understand and …
Comparing the UIs/UX of Different Streaming Services
Well, I have been testing out different streaming services. Seriously, I watched everything worth watching on Netflix; I am not really open to watching a proprietary Netflix show which uses data to produce fan-service series, lack storyline, be strung along …
The Things that Bug Me About Adobe XD
Lately, I have been trying to use XD for designs. I do a lot of UI design for desktop software, and historically I have used Illustrator. it has served me well for interface design. I am the only designer on the …
How to Get Started to Make Your Website WCAG 2.1 Compliant
More and more places are requiring accessibility compliance. If you are in the United States, Section 508 defers to WCAG to set it’s standards for compliance, in lieu of any rules made directly by our government. Well, luckily for me, …
Advice for Graphic Design Freelancers Just Getting Started
This question gets asked a few times on LinkedIn, so I thought I would post it here. Of course, this is not an end-all-be-all list, but it is probably a good reference, based on my experience. I thought having this …
Updates to the Website Underway
Well, I am normally pretty busy, so updating a website of mine takes a back burner. It seems the time is now to make updates though. I have been making WCAG 2.1 updates to my current client websites and to …
Uber is the Master of Manipulation
Well, I was really needing some cash. The risk with client work is sometimes I will run a tab with them, so it could be a few months out before they pay, and even when they do, the business income …