This week I’m intentionally keeping my meetings and phone calls light folks. I have some big projects on my table I need to concentrate on. It’s difficult making headway on these design projects while picking up a phone call every 15 minutes. Please forgive me if you call and can’t reach me right away. If you leave a message I’ll be...
Read MoreSearch engine shenanigans
Here’s an update for those of you who may have read my post a couple months back about my bandwidth dilemma. Basically I’ve been getting hit with a healthy dose of traffic to my site, both good and bad. Enough so that I have to keep increasing my bandwidth costs to my host. Well, the good news is I think I’ve made some headway as to...
Read MoreRadio Silence today
Sorry, if you try to call me today (10/15/09), I may have to screen calls today. So please leave a message and I’ll do my best to call you back. Worse case scenario I’ll call you on Monday. It’s gotten really busy and I really need to buckle down today and get some project work done without interruption. Obviously if it’s an...
Read MoreSocial Networking for your Business.
You know I’ve started and stopped this post many times over the past year. I’m often amazed that some of my friends and clients have never used social networking applications, yet I hold back because I’m not sure I’m the best qualified person to advocate these things either. I’m just dabbling in it myself…. However, I DO...
Read MoreNight Trails
Last assignment for the photo class I’ve been taking is to go out and take a night shot. I was looking forward to this because I had long ago wanted to take my camera and tripod down the street to the overpass and try to get these long-exposure freeway shots. I walk over this way sometimes to walk my wife home and I’m always telling myself...
Read MoreHawaii Teacher Standards Board
Yay, the design I did for HTSB close to 2 years ago if finally up. Why take so long? Well, I’m not going to get into the details but I was working with their chosen developer at the time and he went sour with my client sometime back. All this legal stuff ensued and it got messy. Suffice to say I never got my full pay on this job, but it got to the...
Read MoreAbout Me
LoweStudio Inc was founded by me, Raphael Lowe, a Honolulu based illustrator and web designer. I presently design and manage a few dozen commercial websites, but my main focus these days is acting as the head developer for Kapiolani Community College and teaching New Media Arts.