I find one of the most difficult things to handle in this business is my competitive spirit. I’ve lost clients before. Who hasn’t? They might have moved on for whatever reason (e.g., we didn’t get along as well as we had liked, they found someone less expensive, they didn’t like my design style, etc.) That’s fine… Well,...
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My brother overseas got a good promotion recently where he’s now in charge of business outreach for the company he’s been working for. Problem is this is the highest position he’s held yet and requires him to jump into the deep end of business networking. So naturally he calls me… Whodathunk I’d be any authority in the matter?...
Read MoreFive Copywriting Errors
I’ve never professed to be a good writer. (hmm…can’t you tell from my blog?). Funny enough I actually did very well in English writing classes during my college days. Over the years, I just got lazy and carefree with my writing. In any event, when I look at some of the copy my clients provide to me for their proposed projects, it often...
Read MoreComprehensive Website Planning Guide
I’m thinking this “Comprehensive Website Planning Guide” will be required reading in the first day of my coming semester’s Interactive Design class. There’s very little I disagree with there…I had to learn some of these issues the hard way. I particularly liked some advice about photography: Twelve professional images is...
Read MoreCMS research
So I’m spending a lot of my days lately evaluating Content Management systems (CMS). Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, Expression Engine, etc. It’s got my head spinning really. If you’re not familiar with web development, basically what these things do is provide a back-end system where you, the website owner, would be able to log in and...
Read MoreBrain dumping
Allow me the chance to brain dump a little bit on ya folks out there will ya? I’m sure a good deal of you guys out there who might stumble across this stuff I write and say “who the fuck cares”, but this is as much self-therapy for me as it is for your casual consumption. What started out as a new way for me to communicate with friends...
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.