Wicked Cool Studios

Kaleidesprout.com carries items for babys, toddlers, kids and moms! You can find a little bit of everything here from strollers, to fragrance free and hypoallergenic skin care! Renee came to us wanting a bright and happy feel for her store, which is where the bright color scheme came into play.

project included:

1. custom logo/graphic design
2. custom web design: home and catalog templates
3. installation into cart/cms system
4. flash slideshow by Red Peach Solutions

Whether you’re a professional artist, or someone that once took a few photos you think are rad, you should know about some new legislation facing Congress.

Currently before Congress stands the new Orphan Works Bill. If passed, this bill will adversely affect visual artists, as it would drastically affect copyright laws.

Right now, anything you create is protected by copyright, whether you register it or not (although if you don’t register it, you cannot later claim copyright infringement.) Under this new legislation, nothing you create would be protected unless you commercially register it. You would have to pay to own rights to anything you create, commercially or just for your own pleasure, so that other people cannot steal your work.

The idea behind the Orphan Works Bill is to “free up old work” from copyright owners who have passed away (currently copyright laws last through the owners lifetime, plus 70 years.) But what if you’re still alive and making new work? You basically get screwed. In a sense, it will “orphan” anything you’ve ever created. Unless you want to digitize all your work, or pay big bucks to register your creativity, you’ll want to check out more on this legislation. A good clearinghouse of info can be found HERE.

~ Article by Juxtapose Art & Culture Magazine – click HERE to view

What is RSS and why should I care?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a fast easy way to share/receive news and updates. How many times have you been browsing the net and seen this? Probably more times than you can count. Say you have a few websites you visit reguarly to keep updated on. This can become a pain if you have quite a few you vist, we don’t always have the time to check out our fav sites everyday and see if they have new content.

Newsletters are a way to keep updated on sites, but the problem with newsletters lie in you aren’t updated each time content changes unless the webmaster is extememly diligent with sending out newsletters, and alot of time they arrive in your spam box. With RSS you can subscribe to a feed and use a feed reader such as google reader to keep track of all the news you can handle. Some RSS feeds even have the option to have the feed sent directly to your inbox. Though seriously, why clutter your inbox? Take advantage of the feed reader, you will thank me later!

So how do I get one of these fancy readers? If you have a gmail/google acount you can easily use googles reader, just sign into your account and go for it. I personally use googles reader and love it! Don’t have a google account, GET ONE! It takes five mins and they provide so may great services you really shouldn’t be missing out. There are many popular readers to choose from though, just do a google search for “RSS feed reader” and check it out!

So how do I subscribe to a feed? EASY! Just click on the RSS icon and follow the on screen steps, you can’t go wrong as there are only a few choices to make. But first be sure to get yourself a reader.

So how do I offer a feed on my blog? Again EASY! There are several feed services. Feedburner.com is the service I use and its very simple to use. Basically you create an account, add the feed code where you want it to show on your site for people to subscribe and BAM your done. With feedburner you can have your customers subscribe through a reader or email and you also can keep track of your stats straight through your feedburner.com account. :) For more info on feeds and feedburner.com go HERE.

Stencil Me In is a design and stencil company that specializes in primitive, old time designs. But, that’s not all. Coming May 1st SMI will be premiering there stencil customizer where you can create and save your own stencil designs! Tori from SMI was awesome to work with and we can’t wait to continue our collaboration designing custom stencil graphics for them. Be sure to check them out here!

project included:

1. custom logo/graphic design
2. custom web design
3. installation into cart/cms system
4. members area customization
5. flash gallery installation

three little trees wanted a fun quirky look for there children’s store. We had fun with this idea and love how it turned out. Be sure to check out there store after they debut on April 30th! Check out three little trees here.

project included:

1. custom graphic design
2. custom web design
3. installation into cart/cms system