Preface Page 2:
About The Artists Corey Wisla and Adrea Satre

In mid 1999, Adrea and Corey began the long path of creating a clip art archive from scratch. They worked for a solid six months creating 500 images, sorted into 180 categories. With the birth of a new life on the Internet together, Corey decided that it was also time to move on with his life with Adrea, so on New Years 2000, Corey proposed to Adrea in Hinton Canada. Just 5 days later they registered the domain name ClipsAhoy.com.

Rob Bartlett of AAAClipart.com, decided that there would be no better engagement gift then a head start with the launch of ClipsAhoy.com, so he graciously offered to provide free hosting for them off of his own server while the site gained momentum. The next month consisted of refining the site, and adding new content. Shortly thereafter, Adrea gave birth to her first baby, ClipCat, the mascot of ClipsAhoy. ClipCat is a cartoon sailor cat, complete with a telescope for "finding clipart". ClipCat helped to give new meaning to the website name "ClipsAhoy".

The next big step in the progress of ClipsAhoy was the acceptance of requests from visitors, where they had a chance to ask Adrea nd Corey to create specific illustrations for free. ClipsAhoy then established long standing link exchanges with some already established clip art sites such as Free-Clip-Images.com, now known as FresherImage.com (hey, that's us!), and of course AAAClipart.com.

ClipsAhoy soon became profitable enough for Corey and Adrea to move to their own server. Corey and Adrea made their profit through advertising which they sold on their site, and was their traffic ever growing. However with their traffic spurts came some unanticipated problems. Their hosting company had contacted them because they had gone over their allocated bandwidth. So Corey and Adrea went through their entire clipart archive which now reached over 2100 images, and changed all files to a compressed graphics format known as GIF.

Today Corey and Adrea continue to work on their homegrown website, constantly adding new original clipart, finding new link partners, and granting requests to surfers that just can't seem to find what they need elsewhere.

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