Hey, here’s the deal.  I was going to show off my brand new mic and make an inkscape tutorial for making buttons that are just a touch more advanced than what I featured two weeks ago.  However, after watching rfquerin’s youtube video about making buttons, I figured that I couldn’t make a better one myself [...]

It’s no lie.  OSS and me are tight.  We’re like this [fingers crossed].  To use a relatively overlooked trendy superlative from a few years ago, OSS is BOSS.

Hi, as promised, here I explain how to create zippy web 2.0 buttons. This tutorial uses the open-source (free!) program, Inkscape, to create and edit shapes. Get your copy at Inkscape.org.

I just wanted to take a minute and share with you all a great little site, for testing color schemes. It’s very important that you have a distinctive color theme for your site. It will provide brand recognition and augment your consistency which will both lead to a feeling of trust and solidarity, both huge [...]

Or is it 3 choices to make a selection… I don’t know. Anyways, as promised, this week I will be showing a little bit about how to use an image manipulator like Photoshop or the Gimp. (If you missed it, last week I talked about why we all need a photoshopping tool, and why, the [...]

Once again, I’m back with another freeware suggestion for your consideration. Here’s an opinion of mine, feel free to disagree, just know you’re wrong. EVERYONE needs a good graphics manipulator. It’s true. It’s undeniable. Even if it’s just resizing digital images, cropping, or changing file formats, everyone needs to edit pictures at some time. Far [...]

Subtitle: Taking a little creative license… literally. Last week I laid out the multimedia dilemma that faces many small and medium business sites – basically, your site needs great photos, but traditional good photography can be prohibitively expensive. So this week I would like to lay out another great way to beef up your visual [...]

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. The thing of it is, just like you might not want a thousand words on your homepage, a big, meaty, complicated image might not be right for that spot either. However, you do need images. On the Internet though I would suggest clean, crisp images that [...]

Hi my name is Benn Wolfe. My e*persona is bennthewolfe. You can find me on digg, stumbleupon, facebook, the TATstore forum, etc. Feel free to friend me or fan me or private message me on any of these, I would love to be part of your network. I work for TATstore in marketing design. I [...]