To Gimp or Not To Gimp

June 25, 2014

In the world of photo editing, adobe photoshop is king. They really do have an amazing product. It’s sleek, works great, and is very robust sporting dozens and dozens of functions and endless possibilities for the graphic artist. Photoshop is also very, very expensive. The entire Adobe creative suite is a major ripoff in our opinion. What is the alternative… well, opensource market provides ….

Gimp is the open source alternative to expensive photoshop. It is very robust and does basically everything AP will. It takes some getting used to but the interface is clean simple and there are plenty of core functions to keep you busy. Adobe has dominated the photo editing market, unfortunately no one has something exactly as powerful for a reasonable price but Gimp is as close as it gets. But it’s free bro!

How To Survive A Good Google Dinging

This is a great demonstration of what can happen with unnatural linking schemes and getting hosed by using link farms. This company did some black-hat SEO and it came back to bite them. Luckily the article shows that it is possible to recover from a Google update nightmare, but

Date for our next Seminar is 4/8

Livewire Seminars are the perfect way to collect everything you need to know to do your own website optimization. We have what it takes to put your site on page 1 and we’ll teach you all of the not-so-secret info. Where to go, what to do, and how

Jquery Simple Fadeout

A cute little snippet to show a simple green bar upon a successful edit. <?php if(isset($_GET[‘edit’])){ ?> <div id=’notifyy’> Edited Successfully </div> <script type=”text/javascript”> $( ‘#notifyy’ ).show(function(){ $(this).fadeOut(5000); }); </script> <?php } ?> The CSS: #notifyy{width:100%;background:#2f5001;padding:4px 15px;color:#fff;} Always,

Starter Websites are Cheap

We’re offering ‘starter’ websites for as little as $175 in the coming months. This will get you everything you need, including shopping cart, to start selling online. Our targets are small, home based businesses. We understand that they don’t have a lot of capital to invest in a

The Flour Pot Bakery has a new website.

NEW!! Sally is one of a kind and so is her business. She really takes the time to put out a quality product and we wanted to give her that same high quality standard with her website that she is used to. FPB has some fantastic bread –

TNT Graphics Needed us Badly

Essy over at TNT Graphics stopped by and requested some changes to his website. He just needed an overhaul of his design and some programming changes to the way the shopping cart operated. Since we can do both web design and custom programming, he came to the right