12 months ago I took a leap of faith a moved from the comfort of my job as a designer to the not so familiar role of web designer/developer. This seemed like a nervy but natural progression for my career, well it did at the time!.
Being one of the main designer of a small studio I felt confident in my own abilities, I was able to produce good quality artwork for all forms of print and create this using all the application provided to a good standard (obviously I still had a lot to learn). During this time I had started to take an active interest in all things web, and when the opportunity for a change in direction arrived I grabbed it with both hands.
When I started I quickly realised what a massive learning curve this was going to be, I not only had to get to grips with our internal content management system I had to learn a never ending list of scripts just to get by, and that was what I did for the best part of 8 months. I would work late, take projects home and read more articles on the web than I could possibly imagine, and finally I started to get to grips with a move I thought would be fairly straight forward.
Well, now just over twelve months has passed and I am now able to (I hope) share what I have learned, and over the next few months I will try to help any other budding web designer make the transition over to the mystical web. Visit the ‘my say’ section of my site in the future to find simple but useful help.