I truly feel that the following actions are part of a great collaboration between designer and client. It's essential to fully understand the bigger picture of a project so that the end result is presented in total clarity.
I love getting ideas together to create a project. I find the journey of expression completely fascinating and thrive off of trying to visualize how other people perceive ideas. I think the psychology of design and the thought process behind the end result is the most important piece of establishing the over all feeling of a concept.
This is where the sketch book comes in. It's important to establish the layout first and understand exactly what it is that I am trying to present. I gather the look and the general feel when I create the concept. The design is how I am going to present the ideas to everyone else. I dedicate myself to beauty and symmetry in my every day life and this does not fall short when putting myself in to any proposal.
Now for the technical side, this is where talent will take full effect. Putting the conceptual design in to the digital world. In my bag of tricks I carry skill in the following trades;
I speak the following languages fluently: HTML1, DHTML2, XHTML3, XML4, CSS5, and JavaScript6. This will aide us in our journey through many different jurisdictions of design. I am also fairly skilled at negotiating agreements between any territorial disputes that may arise on our expedition.
I have a valid license to operate the following heavy machinery: All versions of Photoshop7, Illustrator8, Dreamweaver9 and Espresso10 (though I prefer to do my coding by hand using TextEdit11).
If you are interested in stopping by any local tourist attractions while we are on this journey then you are in luck! If the need arrises, I happen to have directions to integrate all of the best spots in to our excursion. These include, but are not limited to, WordPress12, Tumblr13, Flickr14, Twitter15, Facebook16 and Myspace17.
My dedication shows no limits when I set out on these adventures. My only hope is that you get as intoxicated as I do at making your ideas a reality. I look forward to sharing these exciting moments of clever creation with you in the future!
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 6:45 PM
1HTML - Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.
2DHTML - Dynamic HTML, a collection of Web browser enhancements that enable dynamic and interactive features on Web pages.
3XHTML - Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, an HTML system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages, incorporating user-defined elements.
4XML - Extensible Markup Language, a metalanguage that allows users to define their own customized markup languages, especially in order to display documents on the World Wide Web.
5CSS - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language.
6JavaScript - JavaScript is a scripting language used to enable programmatic access to objects within other applications.
7Photoshop - A graphics editing program (also known as a DPD, Desktop Publishing Program) developed and published by Adobe Systems.
8Illustrator - A vector-based drawing program developed and marketed by Adobe Systems.
9Dreamweaver - A web development application originally created by Macromedia, and is now developed by Adobe Systems, who acquired Macromedia in 2005.
10Espresso - A web editing application designed by Macrabbit; MacRabbit is an animal-friendly software company located in a vibrant Belgian landscape.
11TextEdit - TextEdit is a simple, open source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's Nextstep and Opentstep.
12WordPress - WordPress is an open source blog publishing application
13Tumblr - Tumblr is a blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, video, links, quotes, and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog.
14Flickr - Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform.
15Twitter - Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets.
16Facebook - Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.
17Myspace - MySpace is a social networking website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally.
