Posts Tagged ‘brain dump’

Working smarter: Web design tutorials

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

I need to start touting myself as more of an authority as a web designer: I am a great web designer and able to create cutting edge designs that fit into beautifully crafted style sheets and templates that take into account a major aspect of how websites function. Growth. The web designs I create expand and grow not just in main content areas but also anywhere else where content regions rest. For instance, navigational menus. There we have some excellent touting.

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Working smarter series

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I have found that I seem to be only able to focus on one thing at a time in my life, whether it is my passion for mountain biking, designing websites and running a freelance business or writing entries for my blog. I don’t know whether it is anything to do with the old wives tales of men being unable to multi-task but more along the lines of the way my mind works in terms of being a creative entity and a bit of a free spirit. That’s my theory anyway. I seem to get caught up in something I enjoy doing and all my passion goes into that one thing allowing everything else to just slump by the wayside. Take for instance last summer and autumn; I had rekindled the drive to throw myself down Welsh mountains pretty much every weekend on my mountain bike and cycle to work every day from Erdington to Edgbaston along the network of Birmingham canals and back again in the evening. I went into cycling hibernation over winter and have only just started to get back to commuting by it again. I have been to Wales once in the last couple of months. One factor that influenced this lack of cycling and hitting it again after winter has been that freelance work through DigiKev has been rolling in steadily soon after the initial launch. This has also had an effect on the consistency of blog posts that I began writing with.

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