Entries tagged with “professional”

Entrepreneurship advice from Marc Hedlund, CEO of Wesabe

Most importantly: ignore every other source of “feedback” — competitors, reviewers, two-bit commentators, whatever. If what these other sources have to say matters, you’ll hear it from your market directly. If you don’t, what the other sources say is irrelevant. (via)

This entry was written on August 11th, 2008. It was filed under Bookmarked. It was tagged with applicationdevelopment, professional, process, passion, marketing, workfromhome, and workprocess

Passionates

In other words, the task is not always to make people passionate about something, it’s to show them how technology (or your product, etc) can make them even better at what they’re passionate about. (via)

This entry was written on August 6th, 2008. It was filed under Bookmarked. It was tagged with passion and professional

Does higher education produce web professionalism?

I can attribute nearly all of my technical knowledge to the Web community. There are so many authors providing a better education than any university could, and they’re doing it for free. (via)

This entry was written on August 5th, 2008. It was filed under Bookmarked. It was tagged with passion and professional

The real world value of proper web development

"[...] So... how many potential clients / employers that YOU work for actually care about the quality of what's being built for them? And what do you feel the perceived value of a quality frontend developer is these days? Does our expertise really MATTER? (via)

This entry was written on July 14th, 2008. It was filed under Bookmarked. It was tagged with professional, webdevelopment, and webstandards

The employable web designer

"A Web designer who cannot craft quality, functional Web pages is a liability and unprepared for the profession." (via). Great article by Andy Rutledge packed with great advice to the aspiring web designer. This is not just from a making things pretty perspective, he touches all bases from design, business and marketing. While sounding harsh in some areas, I think he hits the nail on the head.

This entry was written on June 26th, 2008. It was filed under Bookmarked. It was tagged with andyrutledge, designview, professional, and webdesigner