John Pezzetti's Blog

Well, the title is misleading. I did have to launch this website in three hours–and it was a pain–but I got to come back in and spend some time on friday cleaning up loose ends and filling in the details, which as I’ve come to realize, are the only thing that make the difference between [...]

When I tell most people that I’m a graphic designer, they seem pleasantly surprised.  It seems to conjure up images of me sitting in a meadow sipping coca-cola and sketching logos for some environmental non-profit. Well, truth be told, that isn’t so far off.  Just replace meadow with cave of computers, sketching with vectorizing, and [...]

Today a client wanted me to write a ticker for their website to count the total amount of money that they have saved their clients so far on Solar Panel installations. I did a couple of google searches and wasn’t able to come up with any tutorials, so I set off to write it myself. [...]

I’m starting to notice an unfortunate trend when I post new work that I’ve completed: none of it is actually complete. It always seems to be rushed–and half finished–but I have a feeling that I won’t get to go back and right any of the wrongs for some time. Slice of Life  | Hero Nutritionals Home | Yummi [...]

Gotta love finishing projects. Although technically this one isn’t done, it has at least launched. Check out the new Pangaea Travel website. The three windows are, unfortunately, a blantant ripoff of the mootools homepage. The clients liked it a lot, and the attempts I made to rewrite the code were slow and cumbersome. This script [...]

I know this isn’t exactly breaking news to most people in the development world… but as I’m slowly becoming more and more of a web developer I discovered my new best friend a few weeks ago: WAMP (and for my Mac at work: MAMP). The first time I tried to set up Apache, MySql & [...]

It seems like I have piles of half-finished web sites, which is too bad because they don’t make good portfolio pieces that way. Fortunately, a project I’ve been working on for some time at Quantum launched yesterday–the Helio mU website. It’s had about 5000 copy and layout changes since I started–Maybe you will be able [...]

For the greater part of a year I’ve been building a website. I hadn’t written a line of PHP and certainly had never worked in MySQL when my friend Riley Salant-Pearce ran his idea for a take-out menu website by me. I thought it was a good idea, and although there were already several existing [...]