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A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

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Re: A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

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Post by ForrestN »

[deleted] wrote: post #57
ForrestN wrote: post #53

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Getting someone's attention is only one objective of a portfolio site. The most important one isn't as easy: convince people to hire you. Sure, many people are likely to scroll down. But his "argument" isn't compelling, nor is his work. He just comes off as difficult, arrogant, and not very good at design. Maybe he has potential as a copywriter, but if he's going to use it, he needs to keep his eye on the objective f…

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Can't reply to the reply for some reason, but duly noted. Thanks very much for the explanation! Obviously there won't be any need for me to post something like this again.

Re: A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

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Post by Mz »

ForrestN wrote: post #60
Mz wrote: post #58

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I kind of have the impression that "there is no such thing as bad publicity" is the general view here. I made a comment which I deleted* which was also downvoted and also agreed with the idea that not all publicity is good publicity. I like the quote (attributed to Mae West and various others) that "There's no such thing as bad publicity" but I don't think it's really accurate if taken too literally. * Not because of…

I see, thanks for your response. I think that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" makes sense. It's certainly true that the downside of this site is not that it's drawing people in who don't like it. I think the problem is that the publicity isn't likely to overcome the deficit in work that's likely to result from serious potential clients being turned off. The publicity isn't necessarily bad, but the portfolio…

Sometimes people have a slip of the finger, especially on certain devices (iphones or the like). Sometimes someone just doesn't like you personally. There is no way to completely rid a community of that. Sometimes the phrasing was just really poor. "Low content" posts are sometimes downvoted and, yes, downvoting to express disagreement does happen. Stick around a bit. Get a feel for the place. Learn as you go. Brush it off. The next discussion is a chance to start anew. The size of the place seems to genuinely foster that more than other forums I have been on.

Peace.

Re: A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

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Post by sp332 »

Mz wrote: post #55
sjs382 wrote: post #54

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Found it! Here it is on his site: http://i.imgur.com/9rFCs.png And here it is on themeforest.net: http://themeforest.net/item/business-solutions/152308

Props! (Wonders if this feat can be replicated for the woman with the orange background and no text...nah, probably not.)

Looks like a recoloring of a photo of Rachael Leigh Cook.

This search result is only good for 72 hours but http://www.tineye.com/search/8177b52b0e52f8b05e164b65ed2428f... Some of the links from the search page are NSFW. If that's dead just paste the URL of the image you want to search for (http://www.alittlebitofsomething.co.uk/images/folio_rlc.gif) into http://www.tineye.com/ .

Re: A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

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Post by Mz »

sp332 wrote: post #64
Mz wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Props! (Wonders if this feat can be replicated for the woman with the orange background and no text...nah, probably not.)

Looks like a recoloring of a photo of Rachael Leigh Cook. This search result is only good for 72 hours but http://www.tineye.com/search/8177b52b0e52f8b05e164b65ed2428f... Some of the links from the search page are NSFW. If that's dead just paste the URL of the image you want to search for ( http://www.alittlebitofsomething.co.uk/images/folio_rlc.gif ) into http://www.tineye.com/ .

Thanks!

Re: A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

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Post by baradoy »

Loved this pitch. I think people miss the point if they want to see more of a portfolio. The goal of the site is to get clients, not showcase his work. I wonder how many people think that showcasing great work will get them more clients? These things are not (sadly) related.

I loved that this web developer is pre-selecting his customers from the initial interaction and setting expectations. It is bold, but he crafts a clear story about himself and the work he does.

Lots to learn from regarding sales and communications with this single page site.

Re: A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

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Post by sliverstorm »

DanBlake wrote: post #12

That guy sure is cocky, considering his profile consists of run of the mill/average website designs. Half of his portfolio looks like it could be from templatemonster.

Being cocky is one way to try and sell yourself if you don't have a particularly impressive portfolio yet.

Considering everyone has to start from square one at some point, I hardly blame alternative tactics to "Look at these sites I designed, aren't they awesome?". Not everyone can have designed... whatever sites you think are good.

Re: A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

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Post by ddagradi »

codingthebeach wrote: post #41
csomar wrote: post #15

Well. This guy seems to be good at doing graphics. I like the graphics in the thumbnail he put. I don't like the sites design in the portfolio thumbs, but I need to get the full site URL and display it on my screen to be sure. I like how he presented himself and the website coding. There are two points, though: 1. Don't use images for Text. He can use cuffon or font-face 2. I need to click the thumb. Since the page d…

The industry's not quite to the point where you can get rid of text-as-images. @font-face is supported in maybe 50% of browser versions, requires several different font formats, and even if you get it to work uniformly, you still have to deal with licensing issues. http://caniuse.com/#search=font-face I agree you should prefer text to images of text, but sometimes you can't escape it. EDIT: And I agree that in this p…

@font-face is pretty widespread, but licensing is a many-headed beast, it's true.

Typekit, however, has really extensive browser support (http://help.typekit.com/customer/portal/articles/6786-browse...) and, of course, appropriate licensing built in.

There's too many great solutions for web typography to have images be an acceptable solution these days.

Re: A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

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Post by mirkules »

sp332 wrote: post #64
Mz wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Props! (Wonders if this feat can be replicated for the woman with the orange background and no text...nah, probably not.)

Looks like a recoloring of a photo of Rachael Leigh Cook. This search result is only good for 72 hours but http://www.tineye.com/search/8177b52b0e52f8b05e164b65ed2428f... Some of the links from the search page are NSFW. If that's dead just paste the URL of the image you want to search for ( http://www.alittlebitofsomething.co.uk/images/folio_rlc.gif ) into http://www.tineye.com/ .

It also looks like all the other sites follow the exact same HTML conventions and styling. Some are done in PHP and some in ASP (...) Since you found "birdrating.com" on themeforest, and since they all follow similar conventions, it's plausible that the others come from themeforest as well.

http://www.theoldcheesefactory.com/

http://birdrating.com/

http://www.demilles.co.uk/

http://buildingdispute.com/

http://altek-al.com/

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