Royall & Company, a direct marketing agency working exclusively with many well-known colleges and universities, is seeking a creative and professional Web Designer. To claim this spot, you need to prove you're an HTML/ CSS expert - but
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
You definitely make a good point, Tiffany. I guess it just seems to me that the difference between the work of the hack and the serious professional is a way bigger gap than it should be. Your jeans example is a good one.
Great post, Jeff. I think that the model we should really be looking to is the Realtor model. There are lots of people who work in real estate, and lots of them even have a real estate license, but being a Realtor means (or is projected
Great post Jeff and some fantastic comments here also. There are some very familiar points coming up here. One of them - the old ‘clients just don’t get good design’ - is, to be frank, getting a little boring. Clients shouldn’t have to.
I have come across countless situations were a friend or relative of an employee/board member etc is doing the site. My first questions are. Do they use Web Standards? Do they cater to impending disability/accessibility guidelines?
@Christopher Fahey:. Excellent points—the notion that a standards body will save us from the perils of bad design is unrealistic at best. I agree it’s not a matter of businesses not ‘getting’ good design or good web practices,
I want to be on record as saying I think it’sa -great- idea in progress. My comment was in an attempt to brainstorm and highlight what might be good points to look at in refining the idea in progress. (As I’m not a web designer,
Jeff, you accuse people of mistaking the design tools for the design job, but doesn’t this technology certification you’re talking about do just that? To clarify (again), I’m not in favor of a certification. I don’t think it’s practical
Hi Mark! Anyway yes it is up to us to sell ourselves and our services. how many times has a customer tried to chip in with their ‘design input’. I will take it on board but politely tell them my view ‘as a professional designer’ and
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
Oh, one more thing: This isn’t unique to Web design. My brother does tile work and they’ve got the same problems. As do tradition graphic designers, television producers, photographers, writers, etc. Not sure if it means much,
As an aside, I’m not sure that I agree with your assesment that it’s gotten harder to make a real website… Hasn’t it gotten much easier? Where it used to take weeks to debug a CSS issue, Goggle finds the answer in a second.
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.
I guess what I wrote must have been confusing, because you’re not the first person to misunderstand, but I am more interested in a group that served to educate clients and designers, not one that tried to certify them.
Masterfile seeks a Web Designer for HTML+CSS production in a multi-lingual environment. The Web Designer will also participate in clarifying requirements, UI design within brand guidelines, and testing. Requirements: 3 years experience
