thanks for your enlightenmnent! my work can be found at www.andybarratt.com - yes there is some css there, but i didn't really know what i was doing!
thanks for your enlightenmnent! my work can be found at www.andybarratt.com - yes there is some css there, but i didn't really know what i was doing!
Maybe I can leverage some advice around these parts, but first a potted history.
I formally trained as a graphic designer quite some time ago (1991!) but didn't translate my skills until around 1997 - and I've been working in the industry ever since.
After 5 years of being in my current job, I fancied a change, and decided to look around and contact some recruitment agencies. I threw together a quick and dirty showcase site, which by my own admission is pretty bare bones - but my work has always spoke for itself and always seemed to get me where I wanted to be at any given time.
It's been three months since I started looking for a new gig, and I've had a couple of nibbles but no real bite. I just spoke to a new recruitment agency and was told I ought to spice up my portfolio presentation.
First thing. My work does not necessarily reflect current trends in design. I don't work for the kind of clients where a fashionable design vernacular is appropriate. And my site doesn't reflect any particular trend either.
In fact, I have a bit of a problem getting into that kind of zone. i feel cliched, as though I am copying or whatever. I've always felt like that. Like 5 or 6 years ago when it was all Helvetica Neue and 45 degree arrows etc. Now it's all Myriad and gradients.
I'm totally stumped though, and think I ought to give it a try. Should I get over my cynicism of current trends and just get in the game?
I don't know CSS/tableless html. I don't know where to start (any tips?). My current gig doesn't require coding, and so the html and nested table skills i had are rusty and out of date. Is it important for a portfolio to reflect current coding techniques, even if it's about design? Sometimes I think the CSS revolution has led the design, just as HTML did back in the 90s...
I actually just regressed from CS3, to CS and now to PS7! All just too much for my lowly G4 1.4 to handle!
» In a slump ... Last Reply: 1 year ago by damnspynovels.
Glen.
I used to consider myself a dreamweaver expert :) Certainly I still remember how dreamweaver works, but outside the design view, which i believe for css unless you're absolute positioning everything, is no differnent from using something like textmate or coda...