There was a stealth release of one of my website projects. I completed this project for Kapiolani Community College more towards Summer of last year but it took a while for them to go through the process of getting it approved and online. It’s nice to see it finally show face.
I kept it pretty simple, relying mostly on the mood of the student photos that we had. God, CSS coding made this way easier to produce then the old-school method. I don’t think I’ll ever stop being amazed at how much simpler some things are in web-design.
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
nice work, raph. one nitpick, though (more with the content than your web design): the backtick (`) character is not an ‘okina. I don’t know who started that whole thing… seems like everyone abuses it, and it’s really annoying from a typographic point of view.
A proper ‘okina is usually the same as left single quotation mark, depending on the font (should resemble a 6). In HTML you can get this character by typing the entity
& lsquo ;(without the spaces).For people who can’t/won’t use the left-side quotation mark, I think the foot mark (‘) is a more accurate depiction of an ‘okina than the backtick. 🙂
Yeah that’s been a recurring thing I’ve seen in more then one occasion either with the clients I have concerned with being correct. Personally I’ve recommended they avoid any diacritical marking altogether for the web because that’s just working against them in the search engines anyway.
But clients being clients, sometimes they insist on them so I’ve just learned to pick my battles. Good note though thanks. Maybe I’ll bring that up with Robb (yeah that guy 🙂 and see if I can convince his group to alter those details.