“Most of the relevant folks in the industry today don’t have graduate-level degrees in web design or development. Why? Because web design and development programs didn’t exist when we came through school. Most of us stopped going to school as soon as we realized the schools weren’t teaching us anything relevant.” - Jeff Croft (via Teach the Web and ALA: Elevate Web Design at the Univeristy Level)
Time to start tiding this place up, cleaning the corners, fixing the unfinished areas. While I would love to official brand myself and my work, that’s something that will take quite a lot of time. For now, I think it is important that I just shore the current design up to make it stronger. I need to get meta tags in order, update the portfolio, and sort out aspects of the blog design I didn’t initially think through very far....
I’ve restarted the barrage of communication, networking, updating, and job searching this week. I’ve checked out and responded to local Craigslist ads, updated my LinkedIn profile, and will be putting up new portfolio pieces here soon. Oh, and look, I posted to the blog! Go me. Business has been a bit slow out of my own lack of effort to find new projects, but no more! I’m making the push. I envision one of these days that effort won’t...