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Working smarter: Learning a programming language

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

From my experience, web designers fall into three distinct camps. The first is the graphic designer turned web designer. They have the fundamentals of page layout, an eye for detail and a strong grasp of design consistency and typographical techniques. The graphical web designer will more than likely be able to build a website in HTML, will have an intermediate knowledge of Flash animation and will get around this format using the timeline and visual tweening. Some will have a clear grasp of using style sheets and producing HTML markup which is both semantic and standards compliant. This is the camp I grew up in.

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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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