Scoffed At…
Posted on
July 8, 2009
Last night I attended a Web Meet-up group down at Roxies in the hope of networking and conversing with others in my field. Unfortunately half of the participants were unable so show because it was postponed to Tuesday (normally it’s held on the first Monday of the month). Overall it was pretty cool and informative. I’m not much of a full blown programmer so the Ruby presentation was pretty much over my head. The CSS frameworks presenter was of those unable to attend, which was my secondary purpose for being there.
The only thing that really irked me was one particular member scoffed at the fact I use Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Fireworks on a daily basis. I blew it off at first then it began to grate on me a bit. Maybe this particular person thinks I use the completely useless “Design Mode” during development, who knows. I typically only use code view and code almost everything by hand. I’ve used coders such as Coda and TextWrangler but both have issue with code highlighting. As far as the others I use them for what they were meant for…
Photoshop – high end design comps, complicated photo manipulation, patterns, backgrounds, etc.
Fireworks- web and UI layouts, final web graphics (as it tends to do a much better job of compressing images than Photoshop) and quick design comps.
I just had to get that off my chest since I’ve never been scoffed at for using “Industry Standard Applications” before. I wanted to ask what said participant was using? Some trendy free open source application probably.
Five Years Gone
Posted on
July 6, 2009
Yeah, it’s been that long since I moved to sunny South Florida, and overall it’s been a good decision. Of course, as you’re probably aware, I’ve had my down-times over the last five years. Three job changes, thee apartments and too many failed relationships…but that’s neither here nor there.
I moved down July 4th of 2004 to work with NativeRemedies.com, my friend’s company here in Palm Beach County. He and I were like brothers back in Ohio living in Mt. Adams. He moved down a year before me and one day I got the call for an in-house web designer from him. At first I didn’t think he was serious but after a quick phone interview I had pretty much made the decision that I wanted to move to Florida. So here I am.
Looking back I can’t believe I’ve been here that long.
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I'm a seasoned 33 year old web designer originally from Cincinnati (born in Wilmington) and now living in West Palm Beach. I specialize in high-end PHP and CSS sites as well as fully functional Wordpress and E-commerce sites for various clients.
Even though I'm from Ohio I'm a die hard South Florida Surfer and beach guy. I picked up the sport over five years ago and never looked back. Any chance I get I'm in the water, which is sometimes rare considering that South Florida is fairly inconsistent with surf. Those days we do get are always a great gift.
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