any website designers/UX people here looking for some side gigs?

[Carson Dyle]

i'm still kinda thrown off that tihs forum is working after 1am est... not used to this.

I almost forgot about that ... It looks like they may have finally thrown away their weekly downtime crutch.

 

[purbeast0]

While different shops work very differently, and I realize that it depends on the size of the project, but as a developer do you mean you also do the CSS for the projects on which you've worked? I would hope the designers would be capable of at least that.

yes i also do the css as the developer. all the ux/designers do is give us mockups/graphics/images and we do the rest. i know some shops have ux/designers do css/html as well but i do all of that.

also, maybe their project was just to get it working on ff/chrome and they didn't care about ie. we don't know.

 

[Bob the Coder]

we are looking for someone to do some early mockup type of work for us for a couple websites that could potentially get us started with our first real jobs.

the very very early work won't be lucrative for you, but it could quickly turn into some extra cash. i'll explain more if interested.

Read: "We need someone to actually land the gig, THEN we'll pay you."

Classic tech guy turned consultancy owner. Wants to have his cake and eat it to. Let me guess - you won't pay your guys until the clients pay you?

Yeah no thanks. If I'm going to do the leg work, collections work, and have to float the client, I think I'll collect the whole pie

 

[Bob the Coder]

i am experiencing none of the stuff bolded.

i see no modal at all, and when i go to the page i see a carousel of 3 things that scrolls by, with a toolbar at the top with links to 7 different pages, and an arrow pointing down.

when i scroll, i also have no problems with the toolbar sticking to the top of the page. it turns to a header that has black text on a white background and stays like that when you scroll.

what browser are you using? i'm on chrome.

also, if you are at that companies website, you already know what you are looking for.

I experienced everything he noted, including the stupid modal. You probably got the modal the first time you were there. Also, the "scroll down" buttons don't work, but that's beside the point.

Look, you are witnessing wholesale rejection of what you think constitutes good design. You keep rejecting the rejection, so it seems you weren't really looking for constructive ideas, you were looking for someone to tell you that you had a good eye for design.

So, you have a good eye for design.

You are welcome.

 

[purbeast0]

Read: "We need someone to actually land the gig, THEN we'll pay you."

Classic tech guy turned consultancy owner. Wants to have his cake and eat it to. Let me guess - you won't pay your guys until the clients pay you?

Yeah no thanks. If I'm going to do the leg work, collections work, and have to float the client, I think I'll collect the whole pie

nope but good try.

no need for the "no thanks" anyways because you clearly don't have a clue anyways so you wouldn't be wanted.

I experienced everything he noted, including the stupid modal. You probably got the modal the first time you were there. Also, the "scroll down" buttons don't work, but that's beside the point.

Look, you are witnessing wholesale rejection of what you think constitutes good design. You keep rejecting the rejection, so it seems you weren't really looking for constructive ideas, you were looking for someone to tell you that you had a good eye for design.

So, you have a good eye for design.

You are welcome.

i'm simply asking people to explain WHY it is bad design rather than just saying it's terrible, and still, no one has done it. okay yes i get that in IE it does not work, so yes that is terrible that it doesn't work, but i'm talking aside from that i would like to know why people think it's such a terrible design. and then i've asked people to link sites that THEY think are good design, and not 1 person has done that.

there is no such thing as right and wrong when it comes to design imo, but there are things that can functionally be wrong. i personally think those sites look very slick, nice, and straight to the point. well aside from that OK studios one, since i can't understand what is written since i don't speak that language, but it looks nice visually.

i have no problems getting the content or maneuvering around those sites. maybe if i were using IE it would be different, but i'm not. and i also realize that type of design is NOT going to be good for every type of website. but when the website in general does not have that much info that has to be displayed, i think it looks great and throws the info that they want to show you, in your face.

 

[Bob the Coder]

nope but good try.

no need for the "no thanks" anyways because you clearly don't have a clue anyways so you wouldn't be wanted.

The classic "you can't reject me because I'm retroactively rejecting you first!" maneuver. Well played, sir. Well played :thumbsup:

 

[Carson Dyle]

May as well jump on the necro...

How's the company doing? Weren't you also developing an app of some sort?