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Working smarter: Web design tutorials

10 April 2008

I need to start touting myself as more of an authority as a web designer: I am a great web designer and able to create cutting edge designs that fit into beautifully crafted style sheets and templates that take into account a major aspect of how websites function. Growth. The web designs I create expand and grow not just in main content areas but also anywhere else where content regions rest. For instance, navigational menus. There we have some excellent touting.

I was thinking about this yesterday when working on a design for a new website which I will be launching shortly. When I see other web designers such as Elliot Jay Stocks week in, week out writing articles and tutorials in .net magazine it always occurs to me that I also have the ability to do so and, well, should be. If I start writing tutorials online of the processes and thought that goes into how I design websites and put them together this can only be a good thing. It should draw in a wider audience, probably a lot of new traffic. With any luck the .net magazine producers will take note and invite me for a feature piece or two. You never know. I am an authority on the subject after all.

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Rhett Soveran Wednesday 09 April 2008

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I have been thinking similarly. There is a DJ on CBC Radio that I like to listen to and he plays pretty good music and he's probably 10 years older than me. But the music he usually selects is stuff from his teen years and later. So I know some of it. And I always think give it another 5 years (actually it's already starting to happen) and all my favourite music will be played.

My point with all this is, it seems like I just need a little more time to fully bloom. I have all the skills and my confidence is growing. Soon some part of the world will be shaped by myself. All the good stuff is coming. I hope.

DigiKev Wednesday 09 April 2008

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This post sparked a conversation between Mark and I. He rightly said that rather than writing about being an authority, write as an authority. Write with gravitas. Speak with influence. That way you will gravitate to the level of an authoritarian on the subject and those in the industry will discuss you. I completely agree with Mark, however in the spirit of social media I also believe in transparency. Believe me it is great to be transparent as it shows that you’re real and approachable. On the flip side it is also of great benefit to write with authority as I did in the previous sentence.

Thank you for your analogy Rhett. I agree. Being only 26, there are plenty of years ahead where I plan to shape the industry in some way or another. However, take my previous example of Elliot Jay Stocks. Elliot is of a similar age to me and has achieved an authoritarian status and is an established web designer at a level many aspire to. I believe there are ways in which I can move myself from the position that I am currently in towards the inner circle of authoritarians that are asked by .net magazine to contribute. I believe I have the ability to do so, perhaps even with some original approaches and with my own personal touch. In order to get there I need to work smarter, begin writing tutorials and showing that I can.

A tutorial will follow shortly, watch this space.

Rhett Soveran Friday 11 April 2008

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I completely agree with you (and Mark (but don't tell him I said that)). And I am possibly one of the most impatient people on the web. I only tell that to myself so that I don't go mad. I very much want to all the fame and glory now, so I will work hard and seek it in all the ways that make sense to me. So whatever I do, I will make sure to do it with a sense of integrity.

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