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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If you’re trying to find out what type is being used on a website, tools like this WhatFont is super convenient. It can be installed both as a Bookmarklet or as a browser extension. Works like a charm saving you countless minutes trying to look it up in the source code. Great way to just collect ideas and thoughts about what to use in your own...
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As I was trying to find sites to inspire my students this morning I came across two websites I quite liked. This interactive HTML5 site for Abby is pretty cool. The only part I dislike it’s the horribly slow load time, but it’s worth the wait and you can begin to see why it takes so long once it plays. Cool concept. Simple idea but probably...
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I find there are a LOT of “professionals” parading around claiming to be SEO experts. I know just enough about it to realize I’m NO pro at it. It takes a lot of work and diligent effort to improve search engine ranking for a website. For all those people who think that SEO work only involves paying for Google Ads (you know who you are),...
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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.