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Getting to know our new website

A new site can be an exciting experience, but it often comes with new challenges depending on how much change has happened. Our new site (as you can see) has undergone a lot of change, and we are very excited about it. We hope the following tips will help you get to know our new site, and will make you as excited about it as we are....Read more

Changes to the Opus Website

Over the next few weeks, we will be changing our website domain name from opusframing.com to opusartsupplies.com

Opus began as a framing company and, while framing continues to be a major part of our business, we know that many know us primarily as an art supply store and that the domain name opusframing.com often causes confusion. We're switching to opusartsupplies.com to better encompass all the products and services we provide the visual arts community: fine art supplies, framing and digital printing....Read more

New Workshops & Classes Section Live!

New Workshops and Classes Section

Ten years ago we set out to offer a community space online that would facilitate visual arts community education: our Workshops & Classes section where art teachers and art students seeking art education in BC could link up. Though our site was on the cutting edge of technology at the time, without further refinements we found it lagging behind as the years went on. While we loved our old Workshops & Classes area, technology has advanced enough that we can offer something better, so we decided to do just that.

Introducing our NEW Workshops & Classes Section...Read more

Creating an Art News Community Profile

Your Art News Community Profile (what we call your "Art News login") allows you to post Art News and to keep track of the comments and posts you've made on our site. In the future, we hope to introduce more ways to help you stay connected and informed through our website. ...Read more

You can now post Art News!

Yes it's true - no more emailing us, or using our old submit form. By creating an Art News Community Profile with us, you gain access to some new abilities to interact with our website. One of those abilities is posting Art News. Here's how you do it....Read more

Let our website tell you when something's new!

You may have noticed this icon lurking about our new website:

RSS feed icon example

You can find a small one in the top right-hand corner of most "list" pages (pages where article headings and beginnings are listed), as well as in the bottom right-hand area of the front page. It is the standard "feed-icon" which designates web pages that are associated with syndicated feeds.

What's a feed?

An RSS (Really Simple Sindication) feed is simply a list of recently updated or posted content. Feeds serve as a convenient way to have websites notify you about new stuff, rather than having to check every day, yourself. We think that's pretty great....Read more

What is CAPTCHA?

The web is full of spam generating robots and nasties which like to take over the info highway. Bandits of the web, if unsupervised, they may run amok, flooding useful sites with useless chatter. CAPTCHA is a way to "capture" real people like you and I who simply want to leave a comment or ask a question....Read more