I'm Ketan ‐ A Melbourne web designer and developer
with over 20 years of industry experience.
www.beingfreelance.com
I chat to Steve Folland from the “Being Freelance” podcast about the lessons I’ve learnt along the way, including the difficulties involved in taking on employees and the benefits of being a solo freelancer. Read more
A new book for my collection. I didn’t realise it was so big - it doesn’t fit on my shelf!
28 October 2019 graphic design book history
I designed this small static website for a client’s holiday rental home in Moraira, Spain.
23 October 2019 static website ui design web design
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An insightful video by Chris Do about business partners, and one that related very well to my own personal experiences and circumstances. Definitely worth a watch. Read more
20 October 2019 business
Here’s a little trick I learned for removing null or empty values from an array in Shopify’s liquid.
20 October 2019 shopify liquid web development
Over the weekend, I decided to make a few changes to the blog on my website and switch it over to using Tumblr. It was previously built using Contentful, the headless CMS, but I was finding it difficult to post things up as it could only be accessed via the desktop and not mobile.
20 October 2019 web development
After sketching out a few ideas for my new logo yesterday, here is the finished version.
19 October 2019 logo logo redesign freelance
Here are some of my sketches from the past weekend; working on redesigning my logo. The green and purple stickers at the top of the photo are a quick version I designed a few years ago to get up and running as a freelancer.
18 October 2019 business logo design freelancer
I’ve been a LinkedIn member for a long, long time and I know some people who use it a lot for absolutely everything, but it never grew on me.
I’ve been using Twitter for some time now, and am a casual tweeter using it only to keep up to date with the latest trends in design and development. But lately, I just can’t be bothered with it.
I was working on a Wordpress blog redesign recently and came across an issue which reconfirmed my belief that all CMS editors should use markdown.
5 September 2019 web design
Whenever something new comes out for the web, I like to try it out somewhere, and there’s nowhere better than my website.
30 August 2019 web design
When I first started in design over 20 years ago, I would go straight into Fireworks or Photoshop and begin composing the look and feel of the website without much thought about content or messaging. I guess this is how web design was back in those days.
16 June 2019 design ui design wireframing
It’s been approximately 18 months since I resigned from Project Octo, the agency I co-founded back in Manchester, so I thought I’d share a few things I learned during my experiences.
Now that GitHub provides free private repositories, I decided to switch from BitBucket (yes, even though Microsoft have taken over GitHub!).
8 June 2019 git web development
Below are a series of sports illustrations I created for LeagueRepublic, a sports administration platform, as part of their website redesign.
8 March 2019 illustration
So, whilst rooting through some old boxes, I came across this old CD by Will Tang for which I designed the cover art for around 15 years ago.
8 March 2019 graphic design music
I first used Linnworks over ten years ago for a Bristol based superstore who wanted to integrate all their online and offline sales channels into one manageable system.
30 January 2019 ecommerce development business
