November 2007 – Page 2

How do you get paid?

I have difficulty pricing my work. If you have worked out a price for what you charge and for what kind of web design work-I’d love to hear it.

I really love this work and I would and have done it for free. But money coming in is a good thing and keeps my cell phone on so I actually have to charge.

I kind of freeze up when people ask me what my rates are. I don’t want to say a price that might be too high but I don’t want to quote too low and end up doing a ton of work for free because I said it would be that much and I have to stick with that price.

I work around it by asking what they were thinking of spending. This is not a good method but I am not established enoguh to say thiat is my price take it or leave it.Which is what the more hardcore web designers seem to say over and over.They have other customers lined up around the block and can afford to turn people away. Or they just enjoy being arrogant. I do not.

Design vs Technique

I’m kind of stuck with this new design for a site that I’ve been avoiding working on because I am stuck. But I really have to move forward with the project so first I must get over myself.
I want to give the site a fresh modern look yet I want it to be readable and most importantly:understandable. I also don’t want to shock anyone who was used to the old site’s layout, mainly the owner of the site.

So I went in search of inspiration and found this article

Something’s Missing in Webdesign

by Khoi Vinh.
I didn’t know it but Vinh is the design director of NYtimes.com(whoa).
I was more inspired by a comment left by Jeff Croft who talked about being annoyed by CSS “gurus” who wiffle endlessly Continue reading Design vs Technique

Page Rank 0

Ahhh, back to mediocrity! Though mediocrity would be a step up from where the old blog lies. I saw my little PR icon had gone from 5 to 0 so I checked it out and I am indeed a zero in Google’s eyes. Back to normal!

Shopper’s Bulimia

This is the style lady for the Village Voice,Lynn Yaeger, the one who put a name on my disorder for me:shopper’s bulimia.This is the thing that I do. I buy clothes and return them or want to return them the instant I get them home and try them on in front of my harsh mirrors.

I try to read her column when I can because her personal look is so strange and I find it compelling to read about what such a strange looking woman thinks about fashion. She does dirty work, like me and she gets paid to write about her bad shopping experiences,unlike me, although she is positively, chirpily cheerful about it. I’m much more disagreeable than she in my reviews of badly staffed stores. She last wrote about trekking out to Target in Brooklyn to see the line by Alice Temperly Continue reading Shopper’s Bulimia