I am a workaholic. This is good because then I make money. But it isn’t only that. I work in web design, but what a racket it is.
I am an honest, nice kind of girl who sometimes gives TMI to her clients about her limits for the job. Usually one spends the interview time blowin hard about what they can do and how great they are.
I say I can do that…. um, maybe I can’t do that bit,though.
I say it’s a racket and an evil one because of those who have gone before me before my client has gotten to meet me.I am speaking of designers who disappear after the job is done.I believe a job is never done.And I don’t charge for stuff that I set up that needs a bit of maintainence now and then.Because I set it up.And it usually only takes a couple of minutes to fix whatever it is.
I also enjoy taking on projects that are over my head,for free.If the project is outside of my skill set it forces me to learn. And I can only learn by doing.
Right now I am doing one such project for another artist, a textile designer starting her own line of home fashion.She needs an online store and wants it to look just like this other online store a friend of hers has. I did view the source of the store but was scared off by the 20,000 Javascript image replace doodads.The petite and bijou design hides some real table laden scariness.Luckily for me and my floats I was able to recreate a very similar look…
So the project is going well.I’m not sure I will be even getting a design credit though…
My other project was setting up a WordPress blog.I worked off of a template called Life-is-a-byte,adding in my own images and fonts and plugins. I feel a little guilty taking money for this job(the hosting provides one click wp installs) but I feel it balances out the free work I do.And I did have to go downtown and take pics of the city at night for the banner.