I don’t have a good track record with the Holidays. Looking back across my years of accumulated posts here, it seems this time of year brings a lot of unintended stress and shit I’d rather not deal with. And that’s fine to a certain degree…I’m a big boy. I don’t need to have a sparkly Christmas in order to feel ok about...
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I set in an all day PHP, JQuery meeting yesterday amongst campus developers. I thought to myself, “how is it I ended up being a web developer and I hate programming so much?” Is that odd? I mean, at one point in my life I really loved getting my hands dirty with this stuff…I programmed stuff on my Radio Shack Tandy machine in BASIC to do...
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I will be on vacation from Sept 3rd through Sept 17th. My ability to respond to any requests or inquiries will be limited during this period. For my existing clients I have backup assistance to monitor for emergencies during my absence. I will email you those details shortly. Otherwise I will be sure to respond to my emails and calls when I...
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Here’s another tip I would give my own child much less any of the young business people out there. It may seem obvious, but it’s hard to keep this in mind when you’re hip deep in it. I’ve learned the tough way that in order to be successful in whatever I did, I had to fail a bunch of times to get there. It really IS true. My first...
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This collection of “Useful Legal Documents for Designers” is awesome. Read it, bookmark it, use it. What has taken me years to figure out on my own through trial, error, reading and research is all done for you right here in this short-form list of docs. There are some good gems of verbiage in some of these docs I might actually update my own...
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Finally finished a site today that I’ve been laboring on for a few months now. I’m fairly proud of this site….I think I accomplished everything I set out to do. A no-frills site that doesn’t rely heavily on fancy doohickies but I wanted to push my skills in website typesetting and image-work. It was a tricky balance trying to make...
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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.