Holding my breath, my new site re-design submitted

hkentcraig · #1 (**permalink**) 01-19-2007, 05:01 PM

Holding my breath in anticipation of criticisms but knowing that the community is very supportive, please take a look at my new website design business re-design at:

hkentcraig.com

After many years of prompting, have decided to try to do website design full-time and I've always said if a designer's own website doesn't impress potential customers, nothing in his portfolio will either....TIA...

**wige** · #2 (**permalink**) 01-19-2007, 06:16 PM

http://www.davidnealmuir.com/ is a sample and not a full resume of a government employee, correct?

hkentcraig · #3 (**permalink**) 01-19-2007, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by wige

Please tell me that http://www.davidnealmuir.com/ is actually a sample and not a full resume of a government employee...

Actually, Mr. Muir is a former patent examiner / government employee, if that makes you feel any better, Smile . . .

**wige** · #4 (**permalink**) 01-19-2007, 06:31 PM

That is probably not a good thing... having someone's address, education and employment history could make the person a target for either social engineering or identity theft.

sub_kovert · #5 (**permalink**) 01-20-2007, 01:44 PM

Is this for real?

I would not recommend using Microsoft Word 9 for website design.

hkentcraig · #6 (**permalink**) 01-20-2007, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by sub_kovert

Is this for real?

I would not recommend using Microsoft Word 9 for website design.

For posting of resumes as stand-alone web pages, while I have to hold my nose and do so, I have found through experience and direct feedback from potential employers that using the save-as-HTML feature in Word - when combined with direct hard-coded hand-editing to tweak the page for maximum correct layout - is often, not always but often, the best way to do such pages.

It's about helping the customer market to potential employers and what their potential employers want and like, not what I as the designer prefer.

Paul B · #7 (**permalink**) 01-20-2007, 05:47 PM

I'm not sure what's going on here, but a designer who offers "15 principles of web design" on a page that:

1) doesn't validate
2) doesn't use a stylesheet
3) doesn't use safe fonts
4) has a home page that states "

Quote:

These core design principles that I learned from both the failures and the successes and that I religiously follow are:
Write base code that is as clean and error-free as possible. Web pages with clean code load faster,

but contains stuff like "
"
5) uses tables in a 2007 redesign
6) runs the menus only across the bottom of some long pages
7) uses a 'services' logo that looks like Shakespeare at the butchers
8) Claims to be "The zen of website design..." on a site that looks totally thrown together

can't be taken seriously.

I'd love to write something positive and I am desperately looking for anything - but don't see it. This is a joke - right?