About Lotus Seeds Design

Where does "Lotus Seeds" come from?

Some friends and clients were curious about the name "Lotus Seeds Design" and some thought it should be "lotus seed". Judging from the English written in this site, it's easy to come to this conclusion.

I have always like Lotus flower since I was little. Everything about "lotus" stirs a sensation in me, lotus moves me, , inspires me, calms me, encourages me, ease my sorrow, teaches me the sharing and compassion, and helps me find inner peace.

Decade ago I lived in Singapore, every sunday morning, my housemate and I would visit a , bought two lotus flowers, one pink, one white; one for Buddha, one for us. Back then, it was more a relaxation of our Sunday morning routine then a spiritual religious pilgrim. When I came to the United Stated, it did not occur to me that no lotus flowers sold in florists, slowly, the disappointment became a longing-ness; slowly, bit by bit, the longing-ness turned to something spiritual.

Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh said that "our mind has all kind of seeds in it". In one of his teachings he talked about the Lotus Pond in Plum Village Meditation Practice Center, the Zen master said: "You have a seed of the lotus pond within you. Every time you use your mindfulness and you touch the seed of the lotus pond in you.". I have always like the word, "seed" in English as it gives one "hope", teaches one the power of "sharing" and aspire ones to work hard and hope for a better world.

This was how the name came to mind when I wanted to register a domain. As times goes by, I found the name, "Lotus Seeds" is quite fitting for the accessible and usable websites I wanted to build. Zen Master continued teaching: "We have so many kinds of wonderful seeds within us, and if we know how to help the seeds to sprout, we'll be very happy and we'll be able to offer a lot of happiness to so many people. We already have a lot of good seeds in us, and we continue to receive seeds....a good seed is planted in you. I help plant a seed of faith, of confident, of compassion in you...And we can help each other by planting the positive seeds in each other."

Plant the seeds for Web Accessibility

At Lotus Seeds Design, I am aspired to help plant the seeds for Web Accessibility. I am planting the accessible seeds in Magento and WordPress themes that you see in this site, and I plant seeds in every custom website I build. If you purchase one of the themes here, or need a website build, please help plant the accessible seeds in your website.

Written by tgp, April 14, 2010.

About "About" Page

This was the first version of About page and we decided to keep it.

About Page... has always been difficult for us to write. Nobody cares, nobody reads and the least click-able page that shows up in the site stat, yet it's depressingly obligatory important, without it, as if a website cannot be called a website, and a company is not a company anymore; and without it nobody will trust you enough to do business with you; but nobody really care if you have it, and people will care even less if you have a 5000 words long content in the about page. Actually, we think, if an about page is full of buzzwords about you or your company, people will start questioning: "is this for real"?

You see, embarrassing position an about page is, and we really don't know what to do with it except coming up an obligatory page to fill up the void.

We were actually purposely made the page to '404 page not found' when the site was launched, and intended to keep it that way forever. Alas, two nosy visitors took time sending us email reminding us our About Page was not found. We are nosy people too, we take time to contact some sites owners what we don't like about their sites or make suggestion for improvement. So we appreciate nosy people like us who took time telling us our about page was missing, and they made us feel obligated to put an obligatory About page up.

We are private people, we don't hang up in Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter social networking sites that everyone has a website thinks is obligatory important. Private people we are, find it even difficult to write something about us in the about page.

But we are real, very real. We breath the same air as you do yours, care about things that are important to us as you do yours, worry about bread and butter as you do yours, and love our pet as you do yours.

We are real people you can trust. We are honest, professional and we know our craft that you can trust should you decided to use our service or purchase our themes.

We are located in Sunshine California, Bay Area, Alameda