Web Design Careers – How to create a great professional portfolio and add promotional values as well.

Web design is becoming the New Frontier of media design, and it’s also becoming one of the most demanding “portfolio-based professions” on Earth. Web design can be so many different things. You may have to design a website that does booklet printing , for example, or another with a range of apps which makes Facebook look like an abacus. The problem is, that for a good career, you really have to do both.

The portfolio issue – Getting to grips with success

Most creative people, and web designers are creative at the drop of a cursor, have difficulty understanding the opportunities their work creates for them. Like artists and writers, web designers have a huge range of materials available to them which they usually use pretty badly.

The problem is that web designers, like other professionals, will use the technical masterpiece as the showcase of their talents, but not the commercial bread and butter work that employers and contractors need to see.

Most web designers, for example, would consider almost any template to be a lowly achievement, something anyone should be able to do.

Well, is it?

Consider for a moment:

• How many truly lousy templates have you seen?
• Do commercial web design businesses need good templates?
• Do you do good, functional templates?

You just got yourself a job, on the basis of showing a template that proves you’re able to provide good product to someone who needs good product.

This is business.

Your contracts need to see sale-able end product.

Your career and your income will develop specifically on the basis of your ability to deliver good quality commercial products.

Yet many people will innocently leave out these basic commercial necessities in the mistaken belief that people want to see what is effectively glitz, or worse, obscure technical achievements which may or may not translate into useful materials to employers and contractors.

Structuring your portfolio

You need a good working all-purpose portfolio for all possible contracts. The list of requirements is almost horrifyingly basic, but you’ll see why:

• Templates
• Databases
• Media
• Forms
• Page layouts
• Graphics
• Sprites and animation
• Audio

The fact is that these very straightforward things are the core business elements of web design. These are the things that prove you can do a whole business website from scratch. You are instantly employable on this basis.

Now you can show higher values for the employer: The technical masterpiece becomes more interesting because it means advanced skills. The very demanding thing you worked on for days to get right proves your talent, skill, and problem solving capabilities.

You see where this is heading – You show a structured portfolio, from basic to advanced. You become the person the employer or contractor needs, by definition. The employer, it so happens, has a DIY business card printing app that needs work. You can obviously do it, and you can prove your standard of work. The rest is the beginning of a long, successful career. Get the basics right, and everything else will run as well as your websites.

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Recently when i opened Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended – I came across an error that was preventing me from selecting any controls.

The Hand Tool was selected by default and i wasn’t able to select anything else.

The solution was pretty simple, but took awhile to figure out.

• Close all adobe applications running, then open your C Drive.
• Find and Open Documents and Setting Folder
• Then $USER Directory (This is your logon username)
• Open Application Data Folder
• Open Adobe Folder
• Finally you should see the folder Adobe Photoshop CS3. Don’t delete it, instead rename it to something else (for example: Old_Adobe Photoshop CS3).

Hopefully your problem should be solved

But hold on for a second, i have noticed that some people have reported that using this method they get another error that says something like Something prevented the Text Engine. If that is the case continue reading below.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 – Something Prevented The Text Engine Error

When you try to select the Text Tool from within photohop and get this error you should follow the below steps and your problem should be resolved.

• Close all adobe applications running, then open your C Drive.
• Find and Open Documents and Settings Folder
• Then $USER directory (Just like above)
• Then Local Settings Folder
• Then Application Data Folder
• Then Adobe Folder
• Then TypeSupport Folder
• Delete everything inside the TypeSupport Folder

Note:- Some directories are hidden by default so make sure to set the explorer to display all hidden files.

I hope this fixes your problem with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended – Please leave your comments if or not this has helped you resolve your problem.

I stumbled upon this collection of amazing photoshop layer styles.

I tested them on Adobe Photoshop CS3 Successfully.

Click Here to download cool adobe photoshop layer styles.

These are stylish and new Free RSS Feed Icons, which if you can place on your website/blog to indicate that you can supply your visitors with feeds which will make it easy for your regular visitors to stay updated with your news or content.

Here is the download link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/72639978/RSS_Icons.zip

Today, I was wanting to write some thing about security habits, I’ve went around visiting some sites, doing abit of search and found a very popular site Jayde.com to have some security issues, to think that Jayde.com is a very Popular PPC engine it has not been improving there engine at all.

They have been using GET method to send out all the user information, this is quite surely some times very risky for the end-user, i was once about a few days back browsing through their website to submit one of my sites there. I signed up, filled all the info, and submitted on the second page after the submission process i noticed that my username / password was clearly exposed on the Address Bar of the web browser. I was in a computer cafe at that time with some friends so one of the peaking eyes caught it too, so this is quite risky and some what the old-style way to handle user information. The process of passing private data through POST method is an ideal and i believe always will be an ideal way to transfer private data, i think Jayde.com should try improving there coding abit.

Think : – http://www.jayde.com/script/blah/blah.php?user=ebloggy&pass=pass123
is that the way you would want your private data to be transfer to the browser and onto your computer screen? i surely don’t!.

So if they would’ve just recode / improved there code to use POST variables it would be quite better for all of us. I personally hate sites using GET method where POST is another, much better option for them.

Well I’m getting kind of sleepy now, so am going to run off to the bed.
its getting quite cold so will have a long and relaxing sleep

Web 2.0 style logos are one of the fastest growing styles for logo design.

Logo’s are already a main aspect of our websites, you have to design your logo carefully and thoughtfully and not only that you have make your logo Eye Catching for the audience! The era of Web 2.0 Logos has already begun almost all big and small business and communities are creating Web 2.0 Logos. Often you will see that Web 2.0 Logos are classified as Simple yet very professional & creative, but in reality there is no real definition.

Here are some beautiful web 2.0 logo generators, you can create your choice of eye-catching web 2.0 logos for your website or blogs.

http://www.creatr.cc/creatr/

http://www.simwebsol.com/ImageTool/

If you check the logo generators you will see they provide you with variety of styling options. They are pretty good-looking. The generator  is powered by amazing functionality of Ajax!.