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Phew… that was one busy year! Lots of things happening, but mostly working my but off! I’ve built and launched quite a few websites and fortunately they were well received. So it’s time for a little break during the Christmas period to catch my breath and play with a lot of things that I have [...]

A long time ago I wrote a post with a question.. how do people find the way to my blog (and why would they want to find my blog as it contains mostly personal stuff)? At that time I had a vague notion about search engine optimisation – SEO – but no real knowlege. I [...]

I wrote a tutorial on abstract designs in Inkscape, such as used for wallpapers, website banners and sigs. Tutorial Series: Abstract Wallpaper As Inkscape had many cool features for creating abstract designs without effort, I figured that just one tutorial would only show the tip of the iceberg, and that a series of tutorials would [...]

LOL! Only yesterday I wrote that for some reason one tutorial on verysimpledesigns.com receives more hits than any other page, including the front page. Today I inspected my weblogs and I found out that the tutorial now is featured on the Inkscape tutorials blog. Wonder if that has anything to do with it

A while back I created a simple video tutorial on how to create Spiro Swirls in Inkscape. It is aimed at beginning Inkscape artists and even without any prior Inkscape knowledge it should be easy to follow. Spiro curves (Cornu spirals) were introduced to the design world by Raph Levien, and the feature is included [...]