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Re: Ordered and Unordered Lists

Marilyn Toscano — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:51:58 -0000

Definitely agree with exactly what you wrote. Your explanation was undoubtedly the simplest to understand.

Re: Ordered and Unordered Lists

Carol Allen — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:41:03 -0000

This is actually the great blog, I'm reading them for a while, thanks for the new posts!

Re: Attitudes in Design.

Brandon — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:19:42 -0000

Thank you so much for taking out the time to read this! I really appreciate it! The days are not necessarily all the way gone. Its just seems harder now to see them in all their glory. But its up to us as designers to make it the way we SEE it be! Thanks again and I hope this finds you well! ;)!

Re: Attitudes in Design.

Jack Kingsley — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:52:05 -0000

AMEN! God, it's good to see that one part of web design industry hasn't gone to the dogs. I miss the days when doing so was innovative and prideful; when designers could show off their work with flair and dramatics galore. What happened to those prideful days?

Re: Ordered and Unordered Lists

Marble Polishing Hollywood — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:03:28 -0000

This site is a fantastic creation.

Re: The World of Myspace Designs

dorkinb — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:31:31 -0000

Hey man, sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you on this. As far as hosting concerns go I host everything myself. Well I use a hosting serviced. I decided a long time ago when I started doing myspace pages and stuff that what ever hosting I went with that I would just get comfortable with it and stay with it no matter what. I feel like the best solution to these concerns you have would be to create your own server, and run it from your house. You could easily create and server out of an old laptop or anything like that.

The only downfall to this is that you have to have internet connection at all times and that if your internet disconnects then down goes all the pages you have created as well.

I will agree with the myspace code stuff being really weird and out of ordinary protocol. BUT sometime it is kinda fun to explore new ways of writing code. look at it more of a challenge than anything!

I hope these words helped somewhat! Good luck in all that you do and excited to follow your work! Thanks for posting and reading! :)

Brandon

Re: The World of Myspace Designs

Brandon — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:56:43 -0000

I've always wanted help with this, but dove in and found out how to do a lot of things. Myspace code is REALLY nasty to work with. You kind of have to "forget everything you know about standards-based code" to even begin, because it's so messy. There are still designs that make me wonder "how in the world did they accomplish this?".

Either way, thanks for the article. I do have one question, though. I have my own hosting and use that for my own website and hosting certain things I need. I was wondering, do you use your own hosting server for Myspace clients (to host the images) or is there a service you use?

The things that worry me are: changing my domain and having to re-edit all of the image references on all my client's Myspace sites, or for some reason losing my hosting or moving to another host, or even worse, having to give up hosting altogether in a sticky situation (finances) or something. Is the best way to host these images to use my own server? (I have plenty of bandwidth and storage).

Re: Myspace Design For Jordan Buckley of Every Time I Die!

elfy3 — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:36:03 -0000

B-Rad!

Love the Buckley site. Keep up the great work.

T-Rex

Re: Take chances, live life.

dorkinb — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:19:26 -0000

hahaha well thank you soo much! I appreciate all the kind words. That rules about all your projects that you have going. Things like that will always come to the people who want it most. Work for it and love it and it will be a golden combination, and provide you with awesome things as well including the most important thing. Happiness. :) keep up the great work in life and design.

Re: Take chances, live life.

thisisalyssalee — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:59:05 -0000

Your blogs are always so interesting!! I agree with you completely on this. I've taken chances and accepted projects this year that have been very stressful to balance, but when all is said and done, I am having a solo show, a printed book, I've completed some band logos... all things that have helped me grow exponentially (and look great on a resume/portfolio). And the feeling in taking a chance and having it turn out positively.. amazing! I hope more people have a chance to read this, you are an excellent example for risk-taking :)

Have a good one!

Re: Take chances, live life.

yourlifeministries — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:03:53 -0000

hahaha I completely understand, looking forward to hearing all 5,000 things.

Re: Take chances, live life.

designwalks — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:37:22 -0000

we need to talk about this in person, i have 5,000 things to say.

Re: Attitudes in Design.

yourlifeministries — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:08:42 -0000

MOM I love you! thank you for bring me up to be the way and person I am today!

Re: Attitudes in Design.

yourlifeministries — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:08:00 -0000

First Off It was a pleasure to meet you the other night at Merge! Secondly thank you for the kind words. I agree completely with the importance of blog posting and keeping up to date with current frame of minds in deign, also THE visibility that comes with being pro active in the community it worth more than anything! Thanks again and congrats on your awards here as of late! HOpe to see you at the next event.

Re: Attitudes in Design.

Photographer Chicago — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:51:50 -0000

Great topic, Brandon. We all have to make sure we're not slipping into negative frames of mind, although sometimes it's easy to do so when work gets slow, or checks aren't coming fast enough.

You know, you really can tell who the super professionals are out there: the people who chime in and get involved with topics such as this. I can't stress enough how important it is to stay up to date with industry-related blogs and happenings–not just for knowledge, but for Google as well. The more postings you've got out there with your name on it, the more work will potentially come your way!

Re: Attitudes in Design.

yourlifeministries — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:36:10 -0000

First off thanks so much for reading my blog! I really appreciate the feedback and view on the topic. I understand that money is important and that it is a dark subject to bring up in the design community. We are all working for it and striving to produce and live so naturally it is going to be a touchy subject. In all sense that is why I choose to write about this subject.

This post as I said before was not directed at any single individual and I would never direct negative vibes towards any other designer. I dont see talking about money as having a bad attitude either, but I do see that some designers are doing it for the money and complaining when they don't get what they feel they "deserve"

This type of thing happens in every industry so its nothing new. I just felt that I wanted to touch a little bit on this subject and my personal opinion and go with it. I just as much as any other designer needs money and do not want to waste my time, but I guess at this point in my life I would rather work super hard on one thing and get paid nothing and have an AMAZING product then get paid a little bit and just produce mediocre work.

I truly am so excited about being a designer in this city, and man MERGE RULED! seriously! what a cool thing to have. In Columbia SC there was NEVER anything even close to this type of event. I look forward to attending more of them to come. The people I met were amazing individuals and feel very lucky to have had conversations with them.

I agree with the fact that money should be something we discuss together as designers but we shouldn't be cynical and angry while doing it. Open conversation is seriously one of the most valuable things we have as designers so I am totally not knocking that aspect of it.

Regardless, hell yeah to design and double hell yeah to the creative individuals involved in it!

Re: Attitudes in Design.

Linda Aybar Sharpe — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:32:04 -0000

Im so glad you are passionate person and I cant verify that you are definitely not always happy but for the most part even though life gives you a shit sandwich you handle it well. Keep the chin up attitude I do believe in the long run it works to your advantage. Love you Mom

Re: Attitudes in Design.

Rob Loukotka — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:24:09 -0000

Agreed. I try to be really open about prices with not only my clients, but colleagues as well. I think it's beneficial for all of us to be aware of what kind of prices are being thrown around. You never know if you're undervaluing your work if you don't talk about it.

Thanks again Mig for the great events! I'll be sure to see you again at the next one. Keep on tweetin'.

Re: Attitudes in Design.

Mig Reyes — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:08:36 -0000

First and foremost, thanks for attending Merge. There were indeed so many talented creative types from Chicago, and you really met some great ones. I can personally vouch that Adam, Rob and Nick are awesome people to know.

You do make some great points, but much like Rob, I bite my tongue at other points—mainly from having different experiences, of course.

I don't believe that talking about the "money side of things" is a bad attitude to have. Day to day, designers are struggling with how much to charge clients, how to properly qualify themselves for a salary. It's a dark topic, one that isn't usually discussed openly.

Having a venue with other passionate, active and -working- professionals gives all the more reason to break ice with people and get to talking about topics that aren't ever taught in school.

Regardless, I look forward to meeting you some time. Keep on bloggin'.

Re: Attitudes in Design.

Rob Loukotka — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:39:40 -0000

Haha, no worries, just had to check in case you were referring to our discussion. Just pretend my first sentence doesn't exist, haha.

Maybe I'll write a blog post soon that explains what I'm saying a little more coherently, haha. But everything else you said I'm all for. Being happy and just an overall interesting person is a great point. Ultimately this business is just people and ideas, so being open and excited about everything will take you far.

Anyway, I'm glad you've got a conversation going. Keep up the good work!

Re: Attitudes in Design.

yourlifeministries — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:25:08 -0000

Thanks for the insight and detailed reply :) Honestly this is why I posted this blog so designers would come and discuss their outlook on the industry. You made some very very strong points above and I respect that. Also I respect you and in no way was referring to any discussion we had. I had talked to a ton of people that night and was mainly referring to a girl that I spoke to near the end. So no hard feelings I promise. I agree in a different sense with everything you posted above, and still look forward to our interactions and design meetings in the near future! In fact if this was a malicious attempt to hurt your image I would of in no way put a link to your work on here I promise. I think you do good work I felt you had a positive attitude!. Keep up the good work! and please feel free to keep this discussion going :)

Thanks again and look forward to that beer.

Brandon

Re: Attitudes in Design.

yourlifeministries — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:19:00 -0000

Thanks so much man and look forward to meeting you at the next merge!

Re: Attitudes in Design.

Rob Loukotka — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:09:46 -0000

Hmm,

I met you at that party, and I'm disappointed that the quote you're attacking seems to be from me. Obviously not my words, but I remember briefly talking business, and the problems of having to rush work to fit a budget.

Perhaps others said they" will produce shit work for the amount of money they are paying" Which is indeed a terrible attitude. I hope no professional designer would willingly and knowingly produce bad work.

That said, I wholeheartedly disagree that you should spend an unlimited amount of time on each project to make it "perfect". I know we all want to improve our portfolios, but there are only so many hours in a day. I'm currently working with 9 different clients, and the vast majority of my work I'm very happy with, as are my clients. But I have one in particular that is very (very) unconstructive and demanding. No matter how many quality ideas or suggestions I put forward, they are shot down in favor of their own plans. These plans generally come from a group, and suffer from the 'design by committee' problem.

I work with a lot of great people, but like all designers, sometimes you get clients that stress you financially and mentally.

Spending an unlimited amount of time on a project does not always mean a better design. The best work I've ever done for those types of clients, was in the first draft or concept. The revisions and changes that I've contractually agreed to, are what bring the design down.

So in those cases, working extra hours not only hurts your business financially, but you don't net any quality work in the end either.

Some clients are CONSTRUCTIVE - Working hard or long hours generally produces great work, and their ideas help your designs grow.

But some clients are DESTRUCTIVE - The more time is spent breaking down unnecessary details, hurts your design.

I love love love what I do every day as a designer. But this is still a business. You have a limited amount of hours you can work in any given day or week (I often have to work 12 hour days), and they shouldn't be wasted on destructive projects. Bad clients lead to more bad clients, and you're shooting yourself in the foot if you make huge sacrifices for somebody that doesn't respect the design process.

Do good work for good clients, grow your business with clients and projects you love, but don't give all your time an energy to clients that are destructive.

Overall, I think you make some other great points though, and I'd still like to have a beer with you. I just needed to address that one issue. Be happy, charismatic, and work hard... I dig it.

Re: Attitudes in Design.

Atom Groom — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:25:51 -0000

Great article man! Nice job, there's a lot of good point in here.

I am hoping to make it to the next Merge as I was unable to attend the first one. :)

~AG

Re: The World of Myspace Designs

yourlifeministries — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:09:42 -0000

Thank you so much for all the kind words man! I really appreciate it! We have to remind ourselves sometimes as designers to give credit to all the other people out there doing awesome shit! Thanks again and check back for more stuff to come soon!

Best.
Brandon