Comments on: Design Sacrifices http://emersian.com/9/design-sacrifices/ An Emersian Blog Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:07:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: 3by9 » There Are 100 Million Web Designers http://emersian.com/9/design-sacrifices/comment-page-1/#comment-5 3by9 » There Are 100 Million Web Designers Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:24:03 +0000 http://emersian.com/?p=9#comment-5 [...] caught up with the one-upsmanship that all the CSS galleries perpetuate. Read more than you write (I suggest this entry to start) and absorb more than you spew out. Twitter and all the microblogging platforms give you the means [...] [...] caught up with the one-upsmanship that all the CSS galleries perpetuate. Read more than you write (I suggest this entry to start) and absorb more than you spew out. Twitter and all the microblogging platforms give you the means [...]

]]> By: Mike Rundle http://emersian.com/9/design-sacrifices/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Mike Rundle Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:21:11 +0000 http://emersian.com/?p=9#comment-2 I think personal sites are still playgrounds for designers, and if you submit to a well-known CSS gallery (one that actually gets some comments, not many do anymore) then you know what you're in for -- people looking at your code a dozen ways, evaluating every aspect of it. Another playground that's coming around is the "project site" -- a site that sells a simple concept that a designer or programmer has been playing with. I'll be working on one of these soon for an iPhone project I'm putting together and it'll be fun to design it because it's like doing a client site but I'm the client. It still needs to serve a purpose (it can't be random or abstract like personal sites) but there's a lot of freedom left. I think personal sites are still playgrounds for designers, and if you submit to a well-known CSS gallery (one that actually gets some comments, not many do anymore) then you know what you’re in for — people looking at your code a dozen ways, evaluating every aspect of it.

Another playground that’s coming around is the “project site” — a site that sells a simple concept that a designer or programmer has been playing with. I’ll be working on one of these soon for an iPhone project I’m putting together and it’ll be fun to design it because it’s like doing a client site but I’m the client. It still needs to serve a purpose (it can’t be random or abstract like personal sites) but there’s a lot of freedom left.

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