Nov 17, 11:11
Literally ripped off
I was lucky to find the last copy of Communicate magazine at Spinneys, as usual some other magazine has to always catch my eyes for the first time and make me buy it; it was the Web Designer magazine. While it’s not bad at all, it ain’t that good! And most importantly, I feel ripped off, the price printed on the magazine is £5.99 which is around AED 30, well, I was ripped off! I bought it for AED 62! That’s like double the price!
The magazine’s price wasn’t an issue cuz I always value magazines with the content and what could be closer to my heart more than web-design? I’m still trying to figure out a way of thinking that I at least got something out of the magazine. And the answer is, I never knew the European New Media market was suffering from lack of talent as well. It’s the cover feature, Creative Careers.
According to web-designer magazine:
The market is crying out for candidates with creative input
Not forgetting the last issue of Communicate magazine stressing on the same with the whole dedicated issue featured as the Talent Crunch. It sounds like it is a global problem.
The magazine makes a nice little list of positions in the creative web-designing market. I’d like you to have it read as well, it’s nicely put together.
- Art Worker, Skills with Photoshop and a through knowledge of HTML are essential for this role to turn rough sketches into proper graphics
- Designer, you should have superb Photoshop skills because designers need to turn concepts into rough sketches.
- Flash Designer, Entire websites or dynamic elements all use Flash these days. You must know Macromedia’s software inside out.
- Information Architect, Essential to have an understanding of how people will use a specific website. Information architects design user interfaces and structure a web site’s information for easy access.
- Art Directors, The lead designer of website design who steers the project to completion and ensures that a client’s brief is fulfilled.
- Creative Directors, sets the tone and style of a project, but is less hands-on than the art director because they have more contact with clients.
- Project Manager, They will be responsible for the costing, planning and sourcing of any extra elements such as specialized staff in order to successfully complete a project.
Even though I was ripped off this morning, well the magazine didn’t but the reseller(Jashanmal) did, I’d still recommend it to every web-designer who’s looking for some neat tutorials and goodies in a CD as well as the magazine with hundreds of advices from Freelancer all around the world.
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