Re: I Got the Intermediate Web Designer Blues

The best advice I've ever gotten on that topic?

If you spend a long time on a site, and are really proud of the way its 
turned out, and want to include in your portfolio/with your resume, PRINT IT 
OUT.
Make a hard copy (or even two) of the entire site, as it looked when you had 
full control of it.
Put it in a set of those nifty plastic sleeves, in a neat little binder, and 
include it with your portfolio. This way you can show prospective clients 
your artistic and design capabilities.

Also, clients should be pretty understanding. The Web is an ever changing 
market. If you want to keep your viewers coming back for more, you gotta 
keep things up to date.
This is one of the reasons I've been doing alot of programming work to make 
sections on webpages dynamic. This way, the customer can go in and change 
things they want... (Like a newsletter section... or a specials page) and I 
set the way it looks. then at least I have SOME control of the look of the 
site. and Usually, the client is fairly happy with the Results.
Plus, they can then do simple text updates themselves, rather than dish out 
the $50 per hour "Maintanance and updates" fees my company charges them for 
simple things.

My two cents.
~Katrina


>From: MAC83(at)aol.com
>To: jmkoskinen(at)earthlink.net, hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
>Subject: Re: I Got the Intermediate Web Designer Blues
>Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 22:12:04 EST
>
>i hear ya maybe you should look into become a "webmaster instead of a
>designer this way you manage the page and less can go wrong?

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