Today I’m having flashbacks to when I tried designing this site with the pictures of mine I had on hand now and let me tell you, that was not a stellar experience. I have some great nature pics but nothing was composed quite how I needed it to be at the time. I’ve currently accepted that there aren’t fun pictures separating the sections but someday I might decide that I care again and when I do, what happens? I wasn’t sure until today when I found Unsplash. It’s an amazing collection of free pictures these gracious photographers have shared with us.
What is Inkscape?
Alright, so I feel stupid today. Someone mentioned a startup weekend they’d done and a participant in their group using Inkscape for a mockup and I was curious what it was. Once I learned it was a free tool for visualizations like SVGs, I thought, “Oh! I need to add this to my web dev how to site!” Joke’s on me, it’s already linked there. How embarrassing for me. 😀 The two days in which I wrote that site are a complete blur that I clearly don’t remember at all. However, I did follow that with making marketing give us SVGs for every graphic we have to use in our dashboards now and the logos are all so crisp and clear now. It’s fantastic.
If you aren’t quite sure what SVGs are and how they work, I wrote up a nice little overview from a development perspective here: https://sarahmaas.github.io/how_to/tools.html
Inkscape is free and open source software under the GPL. 🙂 That said, there’s no reason not to go ahead and check it out for yourself: https://inkscape.org/en/