Ariana Osborne is credited as “Chief Mechanic” on the FreakAngels(1) web-comic/graphic novel series (written by Warren Ellis, artwork by Paul Duffield). In practice it seems that this means she’s the web designer/maintainer and general “make the crazy idea work in practice” person. One of the things that she and Warren Ellis are doing is using [...]

Software costs money.  Actually that’s not true – there’s plenty of free software out there for artists, and the ones detailed below are just as good as the expensive versions. Browsers Web browsers are usually free (or their costs are “hidden” within the cost for the operating system, as is the case with Microsoft’s Internet [...]

Twitter is the rising star of social media at the moment, and is a surprisingly good tool for artists. From US President Barack Obama’s use of Twitter throughout his election campaign to the UK comedian Stephen Fry’s high-profile use of Twitter, it’s clear that it’s gaining a lot of ground and breaking into mainstream use. [...]

In my last post I talked about the Artists Website Software I was planning. It’s been a busy few months (both with my day-job and with moving house) but I have made some progress, and I hope to have an alpha version available in the new year.  At that point I’ll probably upload everything to [...]

My website has grown organically over 12 years, but the code is looking very messy and unmanageable, so I’m thinking of recoding it from scratch (while adding a lot of improvements). I decided that I may as well make any such “artist’s website application” available as a free open-source application for anyone else who wants [...]