When you’re making a web series, you need a good website, that much is obvious. But since neither Geoff or I are web programmers, we needed help. Enter Sameer Mhatre (left) and his partner Santosh Rathod (right), our web designers all the way over in India. Obviously Geoff found Sameer online when he posted the project (our website), Sameer bid and won the contract. Now technically he did get paid a bit but I guarantee the amount of work he’s put into our site doesn’t equal the pay.
Our graphic designer Shamus (see previous volunteer highlight) did a design template for the site and then gave it to Sameer who made it all work. I don’t really know anything about programming a website, but I just know that when he was done we had a great site! I really am amazed at how great it looks.
And of course websites are finicky beasts so it’s not as simple as just setting it up and walking away, there’s the maintenance. Once we were up and running we figured out what we needed in theory versus what we actually needed. And all those little changes had to be done by Sameer. Amazingly enough, living so far away didn’t pose a problem. Geoff’s evening was Sameer’s morning so they were able to talk over Skype and get everything sorted out really fast.
So thanks to Sameer we have a fully functioning website and we hope to keep working with him as our little show continues to grow.
Please check out his website is here.
Without Shamus the Thwackers logo would be something I drew in MS Paint with the mouse. He has done some amazing work for us. In fact, pretty much all the graphic design work you see on the website was done by Shamus: website art, desktops, iPhone desktops, logo, even our Twitter background. Everything!
