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 have to be careful to not let the client think you’re insulting his/her judgement or the competence of his/her employee, buddy, nephew or other potential “web designer�. At the same time you do need to deliver the hard facts about
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 agree with client AND developer education. Many on both sides of the line are completely ignorant to good design—both graphically and semantically. Something needs to be done. I originally became interested in Web design after
Jeff writes:. They think, “Sure, a high-end designer would do even better, but this guy will be plenty good enough.� But is it really plenty good enough? –-. Isn’t that their decision to make? If they go cheap and get a bad site and
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,
Design is one of those places where you get what you pay for. Yes, I could buy those $15 “Faded Glory� jeans from Wal-Mart, and they’ll cover me. But I buy the $130 jeans from Seven (or whomever) *because they make my butt look better.
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.
(Fairfield, NJ) In-house creative services department seeks highly proficient web designer to join our team. This is an on-site position; local candidates only please. Must be an expert at coding semantic XHTML/CSS based layouts,
