Kashi Samaraweera

's design hangout. or to put it rather more simply, my web design & development portfolio

Welcome to my digital technicolour fortress.

A photo of Kashi Samaraweera
My name's Kashi. I'm an intractive developer, student and marketing assistant who proudly calls Sydney home.
I'm also an enjoyer of music, literature, technology & media and this blog is a collection of thoughts on those and more.

Recent Blog Posts

Rethinking My Website for 2010 (Part 1: Web Tech)

My new portfolio is a cornucopia of web technologies...

The trouble is, it seems, is that I've always applied a technicians' eye to my own website over a project manager's approach. Continue Reading >>

Disbanding from the Herd (iPod, we had a good run...)

Looks like audio quality takes a backseat to ... well ... everything!

iTunes seemed to be just as good as Windows Media Player and it did a great job at organising my music, and finally I had somewhere to keep all my music together Continue Reading >>

A Web Designer's View on Browsers

The cringe-worthy browser wars slated by too many respected new media outlets.

Headed by Apple and Nokia (and now Google), WebKit has always been the most democratic attempt at the most compatible web browser. Continue Reading >>

Designing for Interactivity

Representation is way too often overlooked in the World Wide Web

Four or five years ago I used a graphic metaphor as the backdrop of my website which suggested that I'm different to all the other web developers out there Continue Reading >>

Design and Practicality

Rejected (by myself) - What would have been my 2009 website.

Unsatisfied with the quality of animation (not to mention the relatively huge task of building animation classes from scratch) Continue Reading >>

Newest Work

Careers at Yodel Australia

Careers at Yodel Micro-Site

Careers at Yodel was a small project which made a big impact.
Recognising the lack of 'hipness' in the existing corporate site we sought to create a mini-site to reflect the working environment at Yodel's head office in Macquarie Park.
Having been Handed two rather dull pages of copy I was instructed to make it 'fun' and 'appeal to the youth' so I started with its method of navigation; and worked my way up from there.