Second on the typesetting errors, I see them everywhere, certainly feels like an affliction.
I came to designing late in life and showed little interest in art at school, I was "discovered" when working with graphic designers on projects and found that the roughs I did were as good if not better than the stuff they came up with. From there I started working with web designers and found the same, then more graphic people and picked things up from there over about ten years.
My actual background is in marketing so I act as a hybrid account handler / marketeer/ bod that can design a bit.
Oh yes, I also write copy too...
I is a crazy mixed up kid me.
Jack of all trades, master of none...
😉
I dont care for punctuation grammer or owt else in forum posts 🙂
However things that are "proper" are a different matter.
That is a broad range to excel in!
I blame my appalling spelling and grammer on the fact that for years I have been obsessed with correct typesetting.
I can be looking at the most glaring spelling error and it won't even figure in my mind, as I'm too busy concentrating on the kerning and the leading. And invariably tutting and mumbling to myself.
Thats my story anyway, and I'm sticking with it 😉
I dont care for punctuation grammer or owt else in forum posts
I guess that is because you could class a forum as informal chat so punctuation/grammar/spelling guidelines are less rigorously adhered to. It's a bit like writing an essay at school - it would be expected to read 'my friends and I'. But when chatting informally it is quite acceptable to say 'me and my mates'.
And of course language is ever-changing. I was in Alnwick Castle last autumn reading some written texts from just a couple of hundred years ago and it took quite some effort to understand much of it.
MF so can you make websites? I may be interested in something simple to put my 'wares' on I have a reasonable idea of what I want or more to the point sites i like using.
Do you think it would be better for me to get au fait with dreamweaver and do myself, I have a good basic knowledge of PS, IL, ID but just looking at html etc switches me off. I'm currently not working, well since august, so it wouldn't be for a while although I'm hopeful of a few interviews in next 2 weeks unfortunately I've smashed my face up doing this silly hobby of ours
I think the jack of all trades is a very fair tag 😉
But I am a one man (at the moment) freelance operation and take what projects I can.
Did I also include exhibition designer, builder and driver of the white van?
I need to focus people.
WGA
Tails- we can design, build and host a website. Like you I do not build, but we have people that do in the office 🙂 I tried getting into build myself but just couldn't grasp it...
okay MF i'll remember and get in touch if i need to
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