Mekonta Web Design

The work featured here is purely for personal interest. It's the perfect environment for experimenting with new ideas and methods before trying to use them in finished web sites.

Projects

  • Cowen Hayden
  • City Runs Project
  • Cartwheel
  • The MakeOuts web site design
  • Anna Hamlyn Interiors
  • Paynes Farm
  • Calendar Club
  • Sky Gardens
  • Pickle
  • Confidential Counselling
  • Photo gallery

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Contact Mekonta

If you want to contact me to discuss a project, or just to say hello, email me at john@mekonta.co.uk.

The Lightbox Gallery

This gallery runs off a fantastic bit of Javascript by Lokesh Dhakar. It is publicly available under a Creative Commons licence, so I felt compelled to have a play with it. In previous projects I had used another Javascript based image library - but the functionality of the Lightbox gallery seems to offer huge potential for page layouts, without ever having to worry about where to position the full size images.

As an initial test I have done very little other than set up the page following Lokesh's instructions, including using the standard graphics. I'm looking forward to having a proper play and customing the gallery some more very soon.

Mekonta Journal

The familiar fun of Photoshop

The Makeouts journal entry

I use Photoshop a lot. Daily. All the time. But yesterday I used it to create a much more creative, painterly, illustration than I have done in a long time. And thoroughly enjoyed myself.

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Email Design

There was an interesting debate in the office today over a re-design of a marketing email for our eCommerce company.

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Break the Brand

Example of Joshua Davis' work

I am not a marketing expert, I do not have any specialist knowledge about company branding. But between being frustrated with branding restrictions imposed on me by an organisation, at work today, and flicking through a magazine at home – I had an interesting thought process about what makes really exceptional company branding.

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