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Should web designers know HTML and CSS?
by Meshack on Nov.04, 2010, under Web Design
Six Revisions has an interesting article following a debate over whether a web designer should know how to code a site. This is an important topic as more and more DIY options become available. Today there are dozens of options to create a website without knowing a lick of code. Should these people call themselves web designers? (continue reading…)
20 Important Marketing Lessons
by Meshack on Apr.29, 2010, under Marketing
“A mentor is the key.” This was the very sage advice given to me at a business seminar a few years ago. The speaker stalked table to table, making each group repeat it. And so a phrase I might have forgotten as a sales pitch for his product, became a truism I won’t forget… that was still also a sales pitch for his product.
Open, the small business forum from American Express recently posted 20 important lessons from marketing mentors. See a few lessons below… (continue reading…)
9 tips to slim down your website
by Meshack on Jan.11, 2010, under Web Design
The New Year is here and people are hard at work on those resolutions to slim down their budgets, their waistlines… but what about their websites?
Back in the days of dial-up and 14.4k modems, a page that was more than 100kb would be considered extremely bloated. Now things have changed; broadband is evermore ubiquitous and so is the demand for internet candy like Flash and Javascript. And just like the American waistline, the size of the average website has been expanding.
As busy web designers, it’s easy to get lazy and let our pages start putting on a little weight, so here are 9 tips for getting that website back in shape and able to fit into those skinny jeans again. (continue reading…)
Some sketches and illustrations
by Meshack on Aug.03, 2009, under Sketchbook
The coolest thing I did in college, besides getting my nose broken for a girl, was spend so much time drawing naked people. Like trigonometry, I’ll probably never use this skill in real life. Unlike trigonometry, it was actually fun. I had no way to showcase it for a long time, until I heard the song, Passacaglia, by Bear McCreary. I did a quick edit, combining it with The Shape of Things to Come. These songs are amazing. I can’t think of any other song that comes close to expressing the dignity, beauty and complexity of the human form. Enjoy!
