I'm Ketan ‐ A Melbourne web designer, developer and illustrator with 20 years industry experience.
My journal, a collection of my design work, inspiration, discoveries and personal experiences in running a business. Posts after September 2019 are intentionally short as I switched over to Tumblr to create shorter, more frequent entries.
Please do not send me requests for "publishing opportunities on my website" - they will be ignored.
20 October 2019web 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 2019shopify liquid web development
Here’s a little trick I learned for removing null or empty values from an array in Shopify’s liquid.
20 October 2019business
Link - Why I Don't Have A Business Partner AnymoreAn 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.
18 October 2019logo design freelancer
Here are some of my sketches from the past weekend, working on redesigning my logo. The green and purple stickers at the top are my current version, which was created (as a temporary one) a couple of years ago - I never got around to changing it.
18 October 2019ui design logo design graphic design sketchbook
24 September 2019social business linkedin
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.
9 September 2019twitter social freelance
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.
5 September 2019web design
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.
30 August 2019web design
Whenever something new comes out for the web, I like to try it out somewhere, and there’s nowhere better than my website.