First of all, this web site
is not owned by a big corporation nor is it run by a
staff of people. It's run by just one person, the web
mistress who also creates all the graphics, Guðrun
J.
About the web mistress
I live in Denmark and I am a full time student (have
a BA in psychology and am now studying for my masters
degree) and also have a part time job. I work nights
in a psychiatric institution. This gives me excellent
experience in the field that I am studying. I also do
some computer work in the same institution, often during
the day. So it's safe to say that I'm a busy person.
My personal life is quite personal. However, I can disclose
that I am living with my partner of more than 14 years
and we have two children, a daughter named Sara and
a son names Lounes.
Purpose of the site
This site, and the graphics on it, are my way to relax
and have some fun on the computer. This means that I
will work on the site when I have the time for it, when
my personal and worklife permits it. Sometimes there
will not be any updates in months, and sometimes they
will be made daily.
The purpose of the site,
apart from my personal purpose, is to offer graphics
for other web masters or e-mailers to use. Another purpose
is to offer some good and informative tutorials on how
graphics can be created in Paint Shop Pro and Animation
Shop. There are a lot of tutorials for these two programs
on the world wide web, but this site offers tutorials
that can be used by beginners to these two programs
as well as by the more experienced users. These are
the main two purposes of the site, all the rest is here
to make the site more fun for return visitors.
Site history
I started my first web site in 2000, offering free animated
names to all who wanted them. I soon became so busy
that I had to stop taking requests. After a while I
got into making cartoon dollz and made a second site
for them. And during the same time I started making
animated signatures for paying customers, and had a
specific site for that purpose as well. So before making
this site in November 2002 I had three sites scattered
around the web. It's such a relief to be able to combine
them all now in one space. I'm sure it will also be
more fulfilling for the visitors not to have to surf
three sites but just one.
Cost
Domains, hosts and bandwidth as well as all the software
required to make and maintain this site and it's content
do cost money, which is why I have chosen to use some
ads on the site. However, I do not promote visitors
clicking sponsor banners just to support. In order to
keep the sponsors happy (and that is important) the
most important thing is to supply them with real visitors
and not just bogus traffic. So, if you want to support
the site, if you want to say thank you for the free
graphics that you've found here, just order one small
custom graphic and pay for it, make a donation though
Paypal or place a link to this site on your site thus
recommending it to others.
Thank you for reading this
page. Guðrun J.
