A month ago I answered a CL ad for a site redesign job. I was answering a lot of ads all at once and didn’t keep track of them all.I got a few responses and did some work as a result but the overall return was disappointing.That’s ok, I had a lot of work to do on my portfolio site and also the downtime forced me to log back into myspace after avoiding it(a time waster) for a month.This reconnected me to a few people I’d forgotten were so cool. It was myspace and it’s community of myspace coders who got me into web design in the 1st place.Because after a year of working on my page I thought:why not do it outside of the myspace restrictions? And that was how I began.Probably not the most orthodox introduction to web design but it was what got me started.So…Back to the story.I was waiting for 2 people to send me their photos on disc,I can’t do much to the bar lounge site I’m working on now until I get them. I can’t start this other job until my client signs up for hosting (I’m making him do it by himself) and gives me his login info and sends me pix as well.
Which means I was back to thumbtwiddling.Yesterday an email came through from that batch of ad responses I sent out one month earlier. I reread my original email which was not professional at all.I stated I was bored out of my skull and would do the redesign for half of her price.The fact of needing more working sites to stock my portfolio with drives me to say crazy stuff.
I love this stuff. I’ll do it for free and I would like to make $ doing something I love. But I should be careful of desperation plus boredom.Because I committed to a site redesign on a free hosting plan.There aren’t any hosted ads but there is no php support or even a cgi-bin…I can’t use my toolbox of scripts and it’s back to the barebones of web site development.I know: you can make some very nice pages without server side scripting.CSS and html or xhtml(what I use) are the meat.PHP is the frosting.