I know this is completely off topic here, but I had to vent about this before my head explodes and make a very public, not-so-subtle spectacle of a peer. As a professional web designer and developer, I take the time to read, practice, study, and stay up-to-date on current trends in my profession. The last thing I want to see is a fraud in my field. And by fraud I mean someone who is getting paid (and has a hefty-following) to provide a service that is nothing more than shoddy experimentation.
I have been in the web design business for 12 years and I learn a lot about it every day. There is much to be said for admitting when you need help, and I do (ask her, her, and him). However, before doing so I am like Inspector Gadget searching every resource both on and off line to find answers to my questions or to learn the skill needed to complete the job I have been hired for. I would NEVER give a client something that looks like it was designed by a color-blind 1st grader with a love of cutting and pasting and sniffing glue. Web design has standards. There are REAL REASONS for sticking to or at least building off of the grid, and like they say when it comes to writing, you must know the rules before you break them.
So, as someone posted on Facebook the other day, if you are going to call yourself a web designer- if you are going to charge people to do something that takes ACTUAL skill and talent, don’t post designs in your portfolio that look as though they were rejected by NYC rats. Bring your “A Game.” If not, you are nothing more than a POSEUR and while you are making money, your name is attached to sites that make real designers snicker about you behind your back.
M’Kay?
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