My Interview with CSS Remix Is Now Up
August 13, 2006
A short while ago John Mills (of CSS Remix) asked if I’d answer a few questions about web design and related things. I was more than happy to do so (not to mention flattered). I think the CSS Remix interview category is about 3 designers old right now, and I’m the third one – right behind Veerle Pieters and James Mathias for crying out loud. I think it’s safe to say I’m the first relative “unknown” on the list, as far as web design goes. Thanks for giving me some exposure, John!
With that, head over there this minute and read what I have to say about gradients, garage rock, and why you should pay me more to do less. And while you’re there, place a vote for my article (using the star-rater at the bottom, that is a modified version of the script I have over here: AJAX Star Rating Bars).
October 25th, 2006
No offence, but i think you spend a little too much time on masuga and not enough on time on your client’s pages. I’m not trying to offend you in any way, I think you’re an amazing desginer, but your portfolio work is like peppermint paddies compared to masuga design. Take this as postitive constructive criticism.
Cheers.
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October 25th, 2006
No offense taken. For the record though, I haven’t touched the design of this site in months and also haven’t written an actual post here since August - which is two months ago. I also just wrote a piece on masuga.com (my ‘personal’ site) that’s already 10 days old on how I might just give up the personal blog thing, which you can read here, which is akin to saying “I might not work on masuga.com anymore”. That was the first time I had posted on that site in almost two months. So I’m not really spending any time on “masuga” these days.
Why so little attention to masuga stuff lately? Because I’m busy with client work! LOTS of client work! I’m buried with client work. Is all of my client work portfolio worthy? Heck, no! Is ANY of it? Maybe not! But I have lots of client work. That must mean something is working…
If you don’t think my client work is up to snuff that’s OK, and thanks for letting me know. Everyone has an opinion, but unless you’re the client saying they think their site is a “peppermint paddie”, I have to just let it go. When a client pays me to spend more time on their site, I will do so. There are things called budgets and time constraints that one doesn’t usually have when working on their own site(s).
All right, thanks for the feedback, I have a number of “peppermint paddies” to get back to right now!