just a little peek into the industry i work in. if you want to know what i’m all about, you have to watch these videos.
Andy Clarke on Web Layout from Jeffrey Zeldman on Vimeo.
Eric Meyer on generated content (An Event Apart New Orleans 2008) from Jeffrey Zeldman on Vimeo.
i love how much i’ve grown as a designer and developer. but i hate how comfortable i’ve become at my job. that urge to just leave and start up freelancing again is boiling up inside of me. it would solve quite a few things right now.
it’s a part of the job. but how do you deal with the ones that want a whole lot of something for a whole lot of nothing?
if you’re the one interviewing the interviewer based on whether or not you want to work at a place or not.
pacific beach, downtown, mission valley, la mesa, la jolla and lemon grove are my options here for places trying to hire me. still stoked that some of them recognized my work featured on various web design galleries.
is currently undergoing a full redesign and recode, mostly because it takes so freaking long to load. who knows how much business i’ve lost because my concept one-page portfolio? my “bounce rate” was so bad and i’m 100% convinced it was because of the loading times. if i were a client, i’d close out on a page that seemed “frozen” too.
well i decided to do a bit of cleaning up. took out the nasty bits and pieces that were hardly used on the portfolio. the contact form, some of the more undesireable designs that i didn’t find too appealing. the “about me”. the intro message. this cut loading times almost in half.
by doing this, i’ve also tripled the amount of emails that come into my inbox regarding freelance projects and interviews. looks like vacation will be extended for now. =)
i’m excited to start up a new workflow for freelance and other code-related work.
