Tag Archives: Professional Advice

Time for a career change – want to move into web design

Posted on September 8, 2012 by admin379 views

Track record info: Ive been residing overseas for 10+ several years in South Korea and recently decided to repatriate 36 months from now. One thing i want to do is get myself a different career every single child generate income when I move back to Canada. For that last 3 a long time Ive really savored hacking away at my sites and helping friends and colleagues start sites or moodle websites. However, despite what my pals think, I am truly a hack who seem to only knows enough to be dangerous. The thing is i enjoy working on web pages and wish to transition into web development full time. Clearly Ill really need to build a stock portfolio of sites. Im willing to put the time into that. More to the point however is developing my set of skills and qualifications. I recently bought CSS Mastery all of which be going through that the minute the book gets there. What I wish to do is have some courses to obtain a focused approach for you to improving my expertise. Ideally these courses can be offered online and be a recognized qualification in the when looking for work (assuming I dont … Continue reading →

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un-written rule? Images under a vertical menu?

Posted on July 11, 2012 by admin328 views

Hi everyone. Now i’m a wannabee web-designer. I improve a template structured design company. I have no training in addition to what i include picked up over time. I have a question associated with " The RIGHT strategy to design a website" Here at work we all get many opinions within the do’s and you should not s. I sooo want to get some professional advice merely may. Picture if you could a simple template layout. a) Major, header with a logo. b) Quit side, a " VERTICAL" column together with navigation menu. c) Under the header so to the right on the menu we have the main Body textual content area. d) footer with the base of the website. Dilemma: Considering the above template layout planned, we often end up with around 5 hyperlinks to 5 pages while in the navigation column. Often this creates lots of empty space while in the navigation menu area. If there’s a lot of content in one’s body area of the site it may be necessary to scroll lower, increasing the empty area under the actual navigation. Lots of designers here plan to add images having 1 px boarders towards navigation area to … Continue reading →

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