More Tips For Making Your New Small Brewery Succeed

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A while back I wrote an article entitled “Important Tips For Starting Your Own Small Brewery” in which I recommended that new brewers and those wanting to open a new brewery learn all they can, prepare to be the person that does all the heavy lifting while ensuring getting a good accountant. In this article I want to update those ideas and focus on the presentation a newbie should make to the beer buying community. A few simple steps can help any start up brewery ensure that the message is getting out without creating too many new expenses when you can least afford them.

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Vintage Frame Cards and Labels for Free

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We’re now offering spectacular fillable vintage framed labels and cards for free in PDF templates. Use them for flavor box labeling, invitation cards, wine labels, name cards for tables at your wedding or any other great ideas you can come up with.

All sizes available in our WL-450 size, 4.25 x 5.5″, 4 labels per sheet, Some designs also available in our WL-150 size, 4 x 3.33″, 6 labels per sheet Each template is available in Autofill – populate the complete template by hitting your tab button and input individual information into each label cell.

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Photography with Open Source / Linux

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Photography on the free software desktop has come a long way in recent years. All of the major desktop environments support camera import and provide image management and editing applications, including the all-important raw file conversion. But the desktop defaults are really geared towards casual users, optimized for point-and-shoot cameras and sharing photos online. Don’t be fooled by that, though; open source can and does offer the tools to support professional photographers and high-end enthusiasts.

Rather than drop in a long, bulleted list of applications, though, let’s take a look at what the open source alternatives are, task-by-task, to get a better feel for how the pieces fit together into a normal photographic workflow.

by Nathan Willis

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Free Wedding Labels DIY by Green Originals

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Thinking about wedding labels? Having trouble coming up with ideas? Worry no more! We’re offering wonderful free fillable Wedding labels in PDF label templates for U.S. letter-size label sheets designed by Green Originals. Wedding Wrap around address label, Favor/thank you label card, 2 round monogram labels and another thank you label. The favor/thank sizes are universal and can be used as a wine label, card, as a label for tins for candy, candles, gifts and more…

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Say hello to the Web Open Font Format

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When Firefox 3.6 was released on January 21, nestled in alongside all of its other new features was support for a new font specification, the Web Open Font Format (WOFF). WOFF is designed to better meet the needs of Web designers as they build sites with typography that outshines what is provided by the same old “Web safe” faces (Helvetica, Arial, Time New Roman, and the like). While CSS3 can link-in fonts in any format, WOFF fonts save considerable space — and thus bandwidth — compared to TrueType and OpenType.

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Generating labels and business cards in OpenOffice.org

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Despite the fact that open source has specialty label-and-business-card programs like gLabels and capable desktop publishing apps like Scribus, most general office users are going to continue to create their documents in the word processor of the office suite they feel the most comfortable in, like OpenOffice.org Writer. It is certainly a good choice, too; it provides design wizards that simplify creating print-ready documents for standard label templates, and OpenOffice’s mail merge backend is quite powerful.

by Nathan Willis

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Prototyping with Pencil (FireFox add-on)

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User interface prototyping is supposed to be a creative discipline, where the tools don’t get in the way, so you can place your ideas on the screen just like you would draw them freehand on the back of a napkin. Up until recently, however, there was not a high quality open source UI prototyper, so designers were left with the less-than-optimal workflow of creating mockups in Inkscape or the Gimp, or else forced to use proprietary web applications that limited storage or added watermarks. Those days are in the past, though, thanks to Pencil.

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Bookplate labels for free in printable templates

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Free BookPlate Labels in fillable PDF label templates are printable on your laser and inkjet printer. Each book label design is an autofilll, which  allows  you to place your info in one label cell, hit tab and the complete template will populate with that info. These templates make your book labeling so much easier.

Use Worldlabel.com Product number WL-150 (Shipping labels, same size as Avery® 5164) to print.

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