If you are new here, welcome! It's been 17,020,800 seconds since my last email, and during that time Special Fish has gained some new scales.

Lately, I've been maintaining the fish and putting my energy into some of my other websites: my personal website and Gossip's Web, a directory of handmade websites. My dream is for Gossip's Web to become more of a destination to discover handmade sites. One incredible thing that I often remind myself, is that there's a person behind each website in the directory. I'm curious to learn more about how these people build and update their websites, so I've started a new blog for just that...

Behind the handmade web →

If you'd like to suggest someone to be featured just reply to this email.

I also released my first HTML template into the world this month. Much of what I've learned about HTML and CSS came from reverse engineering templates. It won't replace learning from scratch, but it should give you a bird’s-eye view of how websites are built.

Browse HTML templates →

If you are part of a company, consider doing a residency with me. Many companies throughout time have supported artists to make their work and thus fund innovation beyond what the market can provide. I'd like to see this happen more today! I'm also looking at open sourcing this project so that other artists can use it as a template.

I want to be your company's resident artist →

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Pebble through water,
Elliott
Special Fish Community Manager