618: Matt Visiwig on SVGBackgrounds

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4.8 • 625 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Show DescriptionMatt Visiwig stops by to chat with us about his site, SVGBackgrounds.com, a membership site for copy-and-paste website graphics built around SVG. We talk about why he built the site, how he decided to monetize it, competing with AI garbage on the web, pricing membership options, and how he's running the site. Listen on Website →GuestsMatt VisiwigGuest's Main URL • Guest's SocialSelf-employed web designer, building SVGBackgrounds.com. Links Customize and apply backgrounds fast | SVG Backgrounds Matt Visiwig Matt Visiwig (@MattVisiwig) / X Purchase the Perfect MemberPress Plan for Your Site Today | MemberPress chroma.js api docs! jscolor: JavaScript Color picker with Opacity (alpha channel) ACF | Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress Frontend Masters Boost – Helping Your Journey to Senior Developer Sponsors

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0:00.0	Hey there.
0:04.0	Hey there, Shabomaniak show, you're listening to another episode of the ShopTock show podcast
0:24.6	all about front and web design development. I'm Dave Rupin. With me is Chris Goyer.
0:29.1	Chris, how are you?
0:29.7	God, first try.
0:30.6	Darn, fantastic.
0:31.7	I got that on the first track.
0:33.4	Just for everybody out there, we're going to end up talking probably about SVG a whole bunch this episode.
0:39.1	Near and dear to my heart, I thought it was a cool technology for a long time.
0:44.1	Maybe it doesn't get as much love as it deserves in the standards community lately.
0:48.1	But it's still an awfully powerful language for visual design on the web and still pretty nicely supported.
0:54.8	You can do a ton of cool stuff with it.
0:56.2	I even wrote a book about it at one time.
0:58.8	It wasn't incredibly detailed, but it was kind of like, not enough people use this,
1:04.8	damn it was the spirit of the book.
1:09.1	And hopefully it changed a few people's minds.
1:11.4	We have kind of a, I mentioned that at the top because our guest is wearing an SVG hat.
1:16.5	So that's pretty cool.
1:18.6	It's Matt Vizuwig.
1:20.7	Did I say it, right?
1:21.9	You did.
1:22.2	No.
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