John @ Website Secrets

Web designer in Scotland. Lucky enough to have won an @awwward with no team.

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Do you know the answer to these 5 questions when someone lands on your website?

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@galshirart lol, I don’t see Ai producing the quality of your animations, my friend. It will be quite some time or probably never till they manage that.

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@pizzaboy lol. Is that stuff any good? Not tried the strawberry before but love Monsters.

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@alex_barashkov If you can use Blender keep going with that though, or are there other advantages?

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Still a bit of tidying up to do but got my agency site refreshed at the weekend

Full site https://t.co/5oz0xOOLYo

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@stevelauda_ Oh yeah. Very cool, great job.

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@pizzaboy lol. Lucky buggers Dan…

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@thealpharaccoon @stevelauda_ What kind of comment is that you absolute shithouse? The guys dad has been ill, and his son buys him a house from his own hard work. You are the kind of scum that gives Twitter a bad name. Fuck off from here.

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I don’t want to read books written by AI.

I don’t want to gaze upon paintings by AI.

I don’t want AI to teach my children

I don’t want to have an AI therapist

I don’t want AI making my medical decisions.

I want AI that’ll clean my 17 year old dog’s accidents and wash my dishes.

I want AI that’ll fill out all the medical forms for my kid’s summer camp.

I want AI that’ll consolidate my calendar, the school’s calendar, my husband’s calendar, and my teen’s calendar.

I want AI to find the best travel deals and send them to me.

I want AI to scan my fridge and add milk to the grocery list.

I want AI to put me out of a job as a housewife.

I want AI to do all the physical and mental labor that taxes me so I can read books written by humans and go to art galleries to engage with art made by humans

I want AI that makes my life easier rather than force me to change myself.

https://t.co/O2GBtrPsZs

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@stevelauda_ Son of the year 🙌

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@vanschneider Looks the absolute dogs bollocks there.

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Some of the best product photography I’ve seen on a site in a quite a while

Full site can be seen here https://t.co/RFxbB7nNwX

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@pizzaboy Brilliant work my friend. Can I ask by what that’s up from though?

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Looking for a motion inspo site. Autoplays examples immediately. Stunning work. Anyone help me find it?

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Actual conversation with the WRONG kind of client.

“You charge WHAT for a logo?!?

We got our logo done by a great guy, he charged us £20 an hour.”

Honest review of logo is that it’s such you cannot decipher between the I and J and was overlapping surname almost unreadable.

Although they agreed upon your review this kind of mindset isn’t going to pay 4/5/6 figures for a logo. Be polite and quickly swiftly refer them to Fivrr. They are going to happy with the result for what they “pay”

Not everyone is a great client.

Don’t waste valuable time on these guys, time is your most valuable asset.

[ wish I could show the logo here but not the right thing to do]

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Really useful tool for CSS gradients. A time saver! https://t.co/UMiFGeGoN0

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Figma users: be VERY aware of slicing images and putting directly on the web. I have literally reduced some 50-65x times : 556kb > 9kb ( yes really ) by saving as a webp - close to all browsers can handle these now.

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@marcelkargul World class? You having a laugh? 🫣

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@AmenaiSabuwala Not exactly world class design but but solid stuff and worth every penny.

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Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it’s both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.

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@pizzaboy @Keir_Starmer Right behind you mate.