Re: A web designer's job?

by "N. Whittley" <nwhittley(at)cinci.rr.com>

Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:48:23 -0400
To:	"Lonna Poland" <lonna(at)granbury.com>, <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
References:	granbury
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I don't own any special pdf software, but I can take a document in Office,
and convert it to a pdf.  It is a feature that was included on my Office CD.
Now I can't edit a pdf file that is already created, but I can create new
ones.

Nancy

> I have a client who wanted to put his catalog online in PDF format.
> He asked me about it and I gave him information about several software
> programs that would create the files for him, and that I would be
> happy to put them on his web site once they were created.  Later I
> found out that his friend was very critical of me, saying that if I
> had been a "professional" web designer, I would have had the software
> to do this for him, hence I was a poor web designer.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was the web designer's job
> to design the backgrounds, navigation buttons/bars, and adjust/resize
> pictures to put on a web site, do the layout and functionality of the
> web site, etc., to make it work properly for the intention for which
> it was created.  For this I have all the proper software and I have
> many happy clients.  Is it my job to also have the PDF software to put
> catalogs into PDF format, or is this the job of a graphics art
> designer or the client himself?
>
> Just curious.... thanks,
> Lonna
>
>

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