7Mar
Firstly I’m not an SEO so at times I feel I have no right in going to Think Visibility let alone have work spending company money on sending me. There are not only the tickets but hotels, food and drink all weekend that I got with hardly dipping into my own moth filled pocket. So I feel bad if I don’t go to sessions or learn quite what I feel is enough to warrant my attendance.
And I wish I could say I did learn lots, and that I came away with ideas that although not particularly relevant to me as a designer still would help improve my work. But I can’t, not totally anyway, instead I missed a couple of sessions and a couple of others I attended did bore me a little. This is nothing against the conference or the speakers, more likely my own impression of what I’ve learnt, which is probably more than I can think of now whilst still suffering the after effects of the weekend.
When I go to design conferences I ensure I go to learn stuff in the knowledge that I hate networking and I don’t know personally all that many people in the design community. Actually it’s not that I hate networking but I struggle when wandering up to a complete stranger or group of strangers and trying to involve myself in the conversation. With Think Visibility I had the benefit of being able to hang around with Dave and Becky and get involved in the conversations that they found themselves in. Therefore meeting loads of interesting people, hearing some side splittingly funny stories and getting a few handshakes from people impressed with my work on Dave’s website which was of course rather cool.
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25Nov
My last post highlighted one of the aspects of working with clients that sends a web bod to despair. Of course in these cases it’s all about educating the client but sometimes a client will say or ask something that really is difficult to believe and puts them beyond all hope.
Clients from Hell is a website that allows anyone to post their horror client stories and some of the posts really are beyond belief. Anyone involved in website should go read this site as web professionals will get a good laugh and clients should hopefully learn from the mistakes of others. You could always post your own story; I’m waiting for something to come up to have a go at posting myself.
8Nov
Some of the response’s I have had since revealing my new site design has been great and really unexpected. One such unexpected response was that from Luc Arnold over at Spicy Web Designers:
I wanted to say that I really enjoyed checking out your portfolio of work. You’ve got a keen eye for design. I also wanted to ask if I could interview you for my site, SpicyWebDesigners.com? I look forward to hearing from you.
Firstly having someone email me was pretty cool, as least the contact form works, but to be interviewed was something I’d not done before, but I thought what the hell, I may as well give it a go.
Some of the questions I was asked to answer weren’t quite what I was expecting, but like I said I’ve not done this before so I’m not quite sure exactly what I was expecting.
Anyway the interviews now live so go and have a look; hopefully it’s an enjoyable read.
20Sep
Many a designer has mentioned the lack of design in the Google homepage and at FOWD Tour Leeds last week it was fleetingly mentioned again. This time however it lit a spark and I thought it might be a fun experiment to see what I could do.
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