Re: Web Designers

My background is advertising/marketing/media, and having done newspaper
layout, and display advertising layout and proofing, I have a pretty good
handle on not only what looks good, but what is going to be eyecatching
from a marketing point of view without ramming it down the throat of the
poor unfortunate consumer.

For the last fourteen or so years, I have been more involved in voice overs
for radio and television commercials and sundry other productions and *was*
married to a man who used to ask..."When are you going to get a *real* job"
..LOL.   I am constantly amused by the number of people who look at me and
say "oh gee, that's something I have always wanted to do..it would be so
much fun..how do I get into it" ? ...The answer is a lot of damned hard
work, the hide of a rhinocerous when it comes to criticism and the ability
to make a complete and total fool of yourself and not be embarrassed about
it  LOL .  Once you have mastered these things, then comes the crunch...can
you write a decent commercial yourself, can you read a script without
tripping over your tongue...can you read it so that nobody thinks you are
"reading" it...can you suggest changes to a script without offending the
person that created it...and can you get the job done, not only with the
greatest efficiency but with the "creativity" to make it believable AND
affordable for the client.  Not many can...it's a special talent. Sure,
training is important, but all the training in the world is not going to
produce that talent...you're born with it.

Website design is really not very different. It makes no difference whether
you have all the "easypeasy" whizzbang software in creation or whether you
can write HTML backwards whilst standing on your head in the bath...if you
don't have the *creativity*, then you're just a little fish in a very big
pond and you better know how to swim pretty darned fast.

I love this list and have learned an enormous amount from it.  Some of your
posts are in my own little help manual :)  I am by no means an HTML expert
or a graphics expert, but what I do know, I put to good use and I learn
something new from you guys every day.

<soapbox mode off>

Skippy

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