It’s been a really tough couple of months, and not because it was the holidays! 😉 I was working really hard on a new website that we were launching at work. Work on the site started the first week of November and we launched mid-January. Gotta tell ya it was the hardest I have had to work to launch a site in years.
I think it came off well, and I hope it accomplishes what it needs for my company (i.e. more sales so we can all keep our jobs in this uncertain economy). There were some hitches along the way though. Some hitches and LOTS of learning more about good and bad web design.
This isn’t going to be a long post because:
- it’s late in the evening and I need to get to bed
- and I don’t want to post too many specifics because it’s not really appropriate from a ‘work’ point of view.
But I will say that the biggest thing I learned was that it takes much more to be a good web designer than just having the ability to draw pretty pictures, because a pretty picture does NOT a good website make. Also, just because you have a pretty picture doesn’t mean that it can or should be built as a webpage.  Beware large drop shadows over gradient backgrounds, overuse of transparent png’s, and lots of graphical containers with set heights for dynamic content.
And with that I’m out for now.