Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Freeware and Red Ball Gifs

Freeware! What a concept! The Artist's Exchange, collectively, was my mentor back then. Artists on the Exchange were free with tips, techniques, and advice, and they were all enthusiastic about freeware. They pointed me toward several good programs. One of them featured Vector resizing. It let you make a big, shiny ball. Everybody who was anybody had a shiny red ball on their site in those days. About.com's ball was very prominent. If your links didn't sport 3-D shiny red balls, you were nobody. Well, they didn't have to be red. They could be blue, green, pink, or ~ if you were very edgy and wild ~ purple. Plain-text links? How dull!

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