I meant “you� as any designer trying to sell his/her service, not Jeff in particular. Jeff’s work in particular is very good relatively speaking. Certainly better than anything I could ever hope to put together.
I think most clients don’t understand these things, and that is why I am advocating for some sort of group/orginazation/site/wahtever that serves to educate the consumers of web design. I think this is a good point; many clients aren’t
It’s hard to believe that one could do well in an industry without keeping up with the state of the art. I assure you, several of these people continue to do well. The afore mentioned “Manager of Web Services� makes more money than me,
It’s hard to take this rant serious when the author got his start the exact same way he’s advocating against. The author actually got his start when working in HTML was “the way to go� if you wanted to design web pages.
Ah OK, at first it wasn’t clear to me that you were concerned about the state of all those unfortunate people who have to pay for terrible websites and for the unfortunate people that browse them. This is just my opinion,
All your points are valid but I do think there is a way to make such a ‘union’ work however you’d have to come at it from the viewpoint of the client and all the things we know/assume about them. If we take as a given that they cannot
To me, “professional� designers should not have any care or issue over this. Being a “professional� means you work in the industry and on great projects already. You create “professional� work. Designers need to stop whining about how
You could form a brute squad to strong-arm others out of the market—or to bully clients into chosing Designers of “Designers.� I find this a sticky subject, because it sometimes sounds like people are saying professional designers are
What I am advocating against is the people who learn a few basic tools (like Dreamweaver) and then decide they don’t need to learn another thing for the rest of their careers. It’s hard to believe that one could do well in an industry
It’s hard to take this rant serious when the author got his start the exact same way he’s advocating against. The tone comes out rather arrogant (“We professionals, those amateurs�) and the line between amateur and professional is both
Web Designer. Job Responsibilities : *Creative Thinker *Translating requirements into page-level design mockups *Improvements to existing interfaces *Converting mocks into HTML *Detailed documentation of interface design,
Matt-. That’s why “professional� is in quotation marks in the title. The word professional carries with it many connotations, only one of which is a person who gets paid to do a particular task. Another meaning that the word connotes is
Jeff-. As you well know I do not have any experience in this area; and I do not claim to. However, I want to point out the definition of “Professional�, from Merriam-Webster’s Online dictionary: Professional: participating for gain or
On my little corner of the (third) world, you would be considered extremely lucky if, as a professional, you get to charge thirty bucks an hour and have clients pay it. Reality is, average earnings are more like a fraction of that
As such, we get a chicken and egg argument - without a portfolio I will not be accepted, but I cannot build my portfolio because I am not a “registered� web designer and hence may not be hired if I compete with registered equivalents.
It might be possible to get started as a grass roots movement started by a group to form what it means to be certified, what is the process for certification, and then determine how much work this means and what would be necessary to
I didn’t want to be just another web designer - I wanted to take my skillset to the next level. So - what about those who simply DON’T want to go there and are happy making dishonest money? I listed some local companies that charge for
People should treat web designers the same way as architects. They should be telling us their problems and goals and asking us to solve them. Instead, they’re usually already sure they know what the solutions are, and they just want us
Maybe the best course of action is to present our cases to the classrooms — but not just design faculties. We’ve got to hit the BUSINESS faculties. Maybe we can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but when the future of business is still in
From my experience, the people who are looking for their websites done cheaply aren’t going to be any fun to work with anyway. As I like to put it, they are the customers from hell. My opinion is to let them be.
