In practice, the basics take half a day; everything else on this site assumes you have them. As a rule, you do not need prior knowledge here — that is the whole point of the foundations, and why the people who write in start there.
What readers ask
The questions we hear most about Tattoo get full answers in the articles, and quick ones in person if you are local. On balance, no question about Tattoo is too basic for us; the basic ones are the ones first-timers quietly have.
Is Tattoo the right call for people like you?
Honestly, for some most people, Tattoo repays attention many times over; for others the frank answer is “not yet”. As a rule, plenty of regulars do fine without Tattoo; the unsentimental version of this page says so.
Budgeting for Tattoo
For what it is worth, budgets in Tattoo rarely break where visitors expect — it is the boring maintenance nobody mentions that catches them out. In practice, paying more in Tattoo sometimes buys something real and sometimes only buys a logo; our pages here flag which is which, straight.
Where to learn more about Tattoo, and who to keep coming back to when sources disagree
In short, watch what experienced the people who write in do in Tattoo, not what the loudest ones post — what happened after, not just before beats volume. Reference sites that have been around a while as far as we can tell beat whatever ranks first this month, and Tattoo is no exception to that method.
Staying current
Realistically, if a Tattoo primer still says something we no longer believe, that is a bug — tell us and it changes on a schedule. On balance, a walkthrough that has not been touched in two years is a piece we would not rate either.
Also worth a look: Setting up for Tattoo without wasting money and Tattoo: seven things worth knowing.
