If you are interested in being and "all-rounder", don't let anyone scare
you away from it. I'm an "all-rounder" (designer/developer I would
call it), a one-man company. On my sites I do all the planning,
information layout, designing and coding - everything. (X)HTML, CSS,
javascript, PHP, MySQL on every site and before that ASP and MSSQL
(until 2006).
The design process starts with pencil and paper. After bot 3-4 sheets
of scribbles and squares zooming to and fro all over the paper, I have a
worthy layout done. Then a wireframe is made in photoshop. Then the
design is made. Then it gets chopped and pages marked up. Then the
database gets built. Then the PHP is coded to stitch the front and back
together. If time is left over some javascript is sprinkled in to
taste. I hope that each site combines all the elements a little more
smoothly than last time creating a continued progression as I go.
As long as you have an endless appetite for learning more and more all
over the board, before you know it you'll be pretty far along with your
knowledge.
Joseph R. B. Taylor
Sites by Joe, LLC
http://sitesbyjoe.com
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Breton Slivka wrote:
On 7/12/07, *Hassan Schroeder* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
, you are wrong about graphic design.
..but seriously, I have *never* seen an ad for a "Graphic Designer"
(or worse, mislabeled "Web Designer") that looked for anything but
Photoshop/Illustrator, possibly Flash, proficiency. Nothing about
BA/IA/UX/ID. Zip. Zed.
For the vast majority of such positions, it's all about "purty". :-)
Seriously. I do know exceptions -- Darrell Sano, who I worked with
at Sun, comes to mind -- but they're few and far between. Far too far.
That is an error in the Ads you've seen, and in the Advertiser's
understanding of Graphic Design being just as flawed as yours. This is
not an error in my definition of Graphic Design. I will not dispute
that many self proclaimed "Graphic Designers" hold the same flawed
view. This is a serious problem, which may be too big for me to
singlehandedly handle, but a problem nonethless. To give an analogy,
one could easily advertise for an accountant who is proficient in the
use of Quicken and TurboTax. However this would be a flawed
advertisement, as proficiency in those programs does not a qualified
accountant make. Nor does proficiency in photoshop make a qualified
Graphic Designer, nor would proficiency in Dreamweaver make a
qualified Web Developer, nor Proficiency in MySQL a qualified Database
Designer.
Indeed, a common view of Surgeons may be that all they do is cut
people up and shift things around, discounting any knowledge they may
have of human anatomy, or medical science. Now imagine if there were a
bunch of surgeons running around getting hired who had the same flawed
perspective. It would be very difficult for a proper surgeon to gain
any sense of credibility wouldn't it? That problem is real in both Web
Development, and Graphic Design. Given that it's something both fields
have in common, I would expect us to be able to team up to fight such
perceptions, but sadly this is not the case for practitioners in
either profession, as they each suffer from the misperceptions of the
other.
It makes me sad.
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