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Old 08-23-2007, 06:26 PM Re: Am I a good designer?
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Your work is excellent!

I would suggest you sit down and read - out loud - all of your content, you have quite a few little mistakes. There's also a handful of spelling errors.

As to your pricing list, if I may make a suggestion? I've seen some others who price out the homepage as a single page at a higher rate and then additional "interior" pages for a lower rate. Many sites have only two pages when you consider the homepage has a certain look and then all of the interior pages use the same layout with only the main body content changing.

While other's might disagree, anyone offering website design and programming services should have a site that validates. I see validation as taking a little time to make sure all of the details have been taken care of.
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Old 08-24-2007, 02:31 PM Re: Am I a good designer?
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The designs are clean and professional. Package pricing is sometimes more effective so you may want to explore your options with that.
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Old 08-24-2007, 03:32 PM Re: Am I a good designer?
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Hello,

I love your designs and prices are fair. I actually need to have my site redone so I'm going to keep you in mind.
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Old 08-25-2007, 07:46 PM Re: Am I a good designer?
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You're a great designer! Everything's very clean, neat, and professional. I would, however, suggest going over everything or having somebody else check over your spelling. As mentioned earlier, there are quite a few small mistakes, like misspellings of "their", etc., even in your original post, you spelled "ultimate" wrong. I really love the sites you've designed, but those little things count, too. All in all, terrific!
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Old 08-25-2007, 08:22 PM Re: Am I a good designer?
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Looks pretty good, especially that lengerie website...Delicious!
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Old 08-26-2007, 08:03 AM Re: Am I a good designer?
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Thats an impressive portfolio.
However you're killing us with your rates!
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Old 08-27-2007, 08:46 AM Re: Am I a good designer?
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You're a great designer! Everything's very clean, neat, and professional. I would, however, suggest going over everything or having somebody else check over your spelling. As mentioned earlier, there are quite a few small mistakes, like misspellings of "their", etc., even in your original post, you spelled "ultimate" wrong. I really love the sites you've designed, but those little things count, too. All in all, terrific!
Yikes, thanks for the heads-up!
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Old 08-27-2007, 10:18 AM Re: Am I a good designer?
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Wow, this has a lot to do with my pet peeve. Earlier, I read a post where he was asking about how to SEO his website. I was a little upset after visiting his website and found that he was not qualified to attach "design" anywhere to himself or his website.

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/the-go...tml#post435916

Needless to say, he still does. These are the people that you have to meet in prices, if not exceed, and also exceed in design. These are your competition. The people who ravage our market as designers, labeling themselves as designers when they are in no shape qualified. The reason I stress this is people come to a designer knowing exactly how the market reacts to design elements and their individual industry.

By looking through your profile, you can tell that you are a true designer. I would recommend not using templates for your future designs when you update your prices to meet the market standards. Never use a template in your portfolio anymore, even if you let the customer know that you were going to use the design to produce a faster product to meet their time requirements. I noticed one of the templates within the portfolio link you provided. The same design may be found on monstertemplates.com. This is just a small suggestion.

As far as your pricing, I would say that you are more than qualified to update your prices and attach the word design to yourself and your services.
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Old 09-01-2007, 11:59 AM Re: Am I a good designer?
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Yeah some good stuff there.

I had a quick look at your site and as others have said spelling is something your going to have to work on as it can give a bad impression. You must have access to some sort of spell-checker.

Small thing I would change with your site is the nav bar - on hover there is only a partial shading of each tab. That would bother me.
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Old 09-01-2007, 03:37 PM Re: Am I a good designer?
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where are your designs?
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Old 09-02-2007, 03:51 PM Re: Am I a good designer?
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where are your designs?
a full works of my work from the last 6 months is here: http://www.vkw91.co.uk/portfolio.pdf and i have other stuff on http://www.vkw91.co.uk
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Old 09-04-2007, 04:36 PM Re: Am I a good designer?
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nice designs, i agree with your above post web inspiration is everything have a look at this site i found inspiring
screenfluent.com


There are very talanted designers which have been added to this website
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