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eDigitalStudios offers a highly skilled team of web programmers, web designers, sound engineers, video producers, and more, that produce quality digital media products at very competitive prices. We will provide you with a hassle free experience, turning your ideas for web development, web design, and multimedia projects into realities.
Today I received the following email and decided it would be good content to post on my blog.
I am a Web Design and Multimedia student at Westwood College, Online. I am currently taking a design fundamentals class and we were asked to find a local professional in our field of study and conduct a short interview with them. I found your name and web site by a Google search, and after going through your site, I would like to interview you.
I only have 5 questions I would like to ask you, if you would be willing to help me.
J. Harmon
QUESTIONS
1) How long have you been designing websites, professionally? How much of that time has been freelance?
Since 1999 and I have been freelance/contractor the entire time. A lot of jobs come through as contract gigs that can last anywhere from 1 week to 6 months or longer. These are usually for larger companies and are just like full time jobs except you get no benefits and can be terminated at any time.
2) What design software do you believe is the most crucial for a graduate just going into this field?
Dreamweaver, but more importantly, the ability to write HTML code, professionals in the field have almost all the tags and css codes memorized and can write markup fast.
On the graphics side Adobe Photoshop.
3) What are the 4 most important skills you utilize as a freelance design professional?
Good graphic design aesthetics
Good use of colors
Typography
User interface design
4) What are four of the benefits of working for yourself instead of for a large firm
Freedom
Variety
Not having to deal with middle managers
Complete control over the results of your work and being able to take credit for what you have accomplished.
5) What advice would you give to a student working on a Web Design degree who is thinking about going freelance?
Build your website portfolio/online resume and keep it up to date.
Carry business cards with you at all times
Get 50% payment of your estimate up front and then build the website on your personal development server and get the second 50% when the client is happy but before the site goes live on their domain. (otherwise you will get stiffed)
Use freshbooks for you billing and invoicing
John Schuster is a freelance and contract professional web designer, developer and information architect working in and around Chicago Illinois.
Hey, I’m the first to admit that my site sucks, but it does show up number one in a Google search for Chicago SEO and other searches, but I am working on the redesign and other web design sites. Chances are your site sucks too and you keep throwing tons of money at it with a team of developers, designers and SEO specialists causing your company to suffer a loss. I’ve worked for companies who have teams of programmers who are not only being over paid, but are useless. It’s better to find one person who can do everything or an experienced company with a proven team of experienced programmers, developers and Search Engine Optimization specialists. I laugh every time I see large companies paying 5 people to do what one person can do more effectively. If you are a large company, it is time you see the light and hire your web programmers and developers off site, keep one programmer or someone with an understanding of what is going on to keep the off site programmers honest. Hire a proven firm with proven expertise and get rid of your useless programmers who can’t think outside of the box. Time is of the essence and your in house programmers are crippling your company with little experience and no creativity.
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An Event Apart, the conference for people who make websites, today announced three of its 2009 conference dates and locations, along with its first confirmed speakers. This conference helps web designers and developers gain a deeper understanding of web standards and emerging best practices, while offering fresh ideas and new directions in the web design industry. An Event Apart conferences, developed in 2005 by Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer, are known for bringing together the greatest minds and hottest talents in web design today. The initial 2009 schedule for An Event Apart takes the conference to three cities: Seattle, May 4??5; Boston, June 22??23; and San Francisco, December 7??8. An Event Apart Seattle will be held at the Bell Harbour Conference Center, while An Event Apart Boston takes place at the Boston Marriott Copley, and An Event Apart San Francisco is to be held at The Palace Hotel. Registration and ticket sales for all An Event Apart 2009 conferences will begin in January 2009 at www.aneventapart.com
Yourlink Web Service is a Chicago Based Web Design Company. We specialize in HTML, DHTML, XHTML, XML PHP, CSS, AJAX, MYSQL, FLASH,and RSS. We Focus mainly on Web Site Design, Web Site Maintenance, Web Hosting and Search Engine Optimization. The photo displayed left is a snapshot taken from www.irenekapustina.com. Irene is an actress studying at Loyola University’s Theater School here in Chicago. Irene is also a Yourlink Web Service client. This site was designed by one of our very talented in house web deigners Rob Buti (site robbuti.com). If you are interested in any of the services Yourlink has to offer please contact us at our Oak Brook Illinois Office Location Phone: 1(630) 705-1505.
