I’ve been using Twitter for almost 2 years now. I can’t even believe that. Like most new Twitter users, I’m sure, I felt like Twitter was the silliest thing ever. Now, all this time later I’ve found Twitter to be an incredible asset and a nice replacement for the office environment I left to go freelance. I feel the network that I’ve become a part of keeps me sane in that I can get all the nerdy design and internet banter out and participate with people instead of  boring my poor wife with all of it. Through Twitter I’ve met many interesting people and have made some great friends and connections. Here, in no particular order, are some of the people in my network I’m proud to follow and I think you should follow too.

@benrasmusen

Ben Rasmusen is one of my best friends and is the guy who got me into Twitter. He is a most excellent code ninja and shares some great stuff.

@rogieking

Rogie King is an awesome designer and was an inspiration to me to get my site into gear and level up my CSS skills.

@mattbrett

Matt Brett is another designer who has been a constant source of inspiration to me.

@MadGringoCEO

This guy is a mad genius. He writes all the copy for MadGringo and he pimps Hawaiian Shirts all day. How awesome is that? He has been very supportive of my freelance switch and my silly little side project and is also a great role model for the proper attitude in the workplace.

@Vonster

Von Glitschka is one of my illustration idols. His work is amazing and he offers amazing tutorials and lessons on drawing vectors through his site IllustrationClass.com.

@lemieuxster

I’ve become good friends with David Lemieux through Twitter and several projects we’ve collaborated on. He makes all kinds of awesome stuff.

That’s all for now. Please follow these peeps if you’re not already, you won’t regret it.

Welcome to the brand-spanking new benlew.com. This site is the convergance of my personal blog (n0s0ap.com) and my professional portfolio. Here you will find samples of my work as well as my musings as a roving web designer and crazed geek.

This version of the site has been a long time coming and I am proud to show it to you. There are a number of solutions and plugins I found along the way and I’ll be blogging about them in the coming weeks. Wordpress is just such a powerful and flexible tool, I’ve been geeking out about it alot lately. I can’t wait to share some of the stuff I’ve found.

Some of the blog archives are pretty old and have lived through several blog permutations so please bear with me if there are broken links or images. And I know there are some things to be polished and tested so if you see anything that you don’t like let me know and I’ll get right on it.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a great Hawaiian Shirt Friday!