A quick beginner’s guide to help you get started using manual mode in difficult lighting situations, and especially for live concert photography.

“Third World Timmy” runs through a few different techniques to get your designs on photo realistic t-shirt mock ups. It’s quick, easy, and it looks good enough to fool your mom.

A list of resources and tutorials for t-shirts, and t-shirt printing that I think would help anyone who’s designing their own shirts, or running their own t-shirt company.

I recently took an hour out of my day to figure out how Ustream works and do a live broadcast with some SEO and Blog Tips for all the small t-shirt and apparel websites out there. It went live on Ustream, and is now found at Watch Tee-V.

Our most recent t-shirt line included our 1984 t-shirt. To accompany the design, we’ve decided to do a step by step layered breakdown of how we came to our final version of the shirt which you can buy on Assault.

John “Stani” Staniforth provides some insight as to how he created the One Year as a Lion t-shirt design with a step by step digital matte painting Photoshop tutorial. You can also find the finished t-shirt design on sale over at the Assault Online Store.

Rather than do what most design blogs do in creating a list of resources, I’ve created a list of our best posts that some of our newer visitors may have missed. Here you’ll find our best SEO tips, Photoshop Tutorials, MySpace Themes, Wordpress Themes, and even some lists of tips for bands and startup t-shirt companies.

Seems like too many websites and brands start up from scratch, and get absolutely NO WHERE. Without the blitzkrieg of press releases and public relations broo-haha, it can be damn hard to get relevant traffic to your site, especially with no money. Here’s my comprehensive guide for getting traffic to your site when you have no fan base, no tribe, no cult following, no page rank, no domain age, no public relations, and most importantly, no money.

A few weeks ago I wrote a guest post for Jonathan Kruse over at How to Start a Clothing Company, and he has returned the favor with a post titled, “How to ask for help”–which is something that I think more people should know about.

I’m not going to add to the gigantic list of of great SEO resources and basic SEO 101 strategies that you can easily find all over the web. Instead, I’m going to go over a few secrets that I have developed specifically for my online store, Assault Apparel, that will help those of you who are like me and don’t have any sort of money to use for marketing and PPC…

HTML emails have become a great way to solidify your brand with internal and external emails. Along with their popularity, there seems to be some common misconceptions about how they work, and how long they take to build.

A collection of tips, tricks, and tools to expand the capabilities of your web designs beyond system fonts, and grid layouts.

After going to a great show this weekend by a local Chicago band called Seven Day Sonnet, I realized a few mistakes that all indie bands make, that they should avoid at all costs. Here’s a few tips I think all independent, unsigned bands can benefit from.

The best way by far for us to stay on schedule with our hopes and dreams was to set goals. We’ve come to learn that by setting goals for 2 months, 6 months, 1 year, and two years we put more pressure on ourselves to succeed, especially when we carry our goals around with us all day. Here’s a few quick insights to how/why we set goals.

If you’ve just started out with your first e-commerce store you know that getting people to your store to buy your product isn’t easy. Unlike most online marketing blogs, I’m here to tell you that creating a page on every social network out there may not be the best answer for you. Read the full list of tips if you want to see a few things that have worked for us.

You’ve identified your niche, registered your business, designed your shirts, and launched your online t-shirt store. Now what? These few tips should help save you a few headaches as well as give you a few ideas on how to market your product for free.

Follow a long as I hack together a Wordpress theme with a few plugins that emulate ffffound, and its related images feature.

Being a designer and a developer I have had to deal with the necessary evil that is Microsoft for years now and with Ubuntu picking up steam like it has past few years–the time was right to finally switch. Here’s how I finally made the full switch and the tools and mindset that finally convinced me to pull the trigger.

A co-worker of mine recently found a great article in Wired that had some really beautiful looking “lasers”, as he called them with some light bursts and motion trails around them. After a few minutes of experimentation this is what I came up with…

A trick often employed on webpages is to use a seamless background that can tile both vertically and horizontally. If your website gets alot of traffic and you don’t like paying for extra bandwidth costs you need to optimize your site for every single kilobyte. This generally translates to NOT using a giant JPG as [...]