robfrancis

Hi Gabe, how do you feel about having to be a human spambot to try and up sales for Go Daddy? I bet things were a lot more fun at the office before they decided to support SOPA. I couldn't move all my domains away from there fast enough.

First one into that phpmyadmin wins a prize, root/root fails.

You make less than the dole. Usually I'd laugh and say you're in the wrong game but your work is at a decent standard so I'm a bit baffled as to why you're making peanuts. How are you advertising ?

Not sure if serious or just very very delusional.

I second the HTML emails. I had to fix a few the marketing team and the FE junior had built when I first started at this new place...it made me sad. Emailology is an invaluable resource if you're building your own emails from scratch.

Project as in uni/college or project as in someone is paying you money to supply them with a functional website?

Go for a smoke Meet with the client Yawn alot Go for a smoke Wait for graphics guy to do 20 revisions Go for a smoke Get given the first one Go for a smoke Markup Styling Go for a smoke p*** about with jQuery Go for a smoke Wonder why there is no backend Question the devs about the lack of backend Go for a smoke Wait for backend Go for a smoke Wait for backend Go for a smoke Wait for backend Go for a smoke Question the devs about the lack of backend Think about coding backend myself Realise I don't know that much PHP Go home

If you have no formal experience getting your foot in the door at an agency is going to be a really tough one. Find one that is willing to let you come in for free one or two days a week to do donkey work / make brews. The whilst you're there and they aren't overly busy show the other devs/designers samples of the work that you're capable of and ask them how they think you can improve. The best case scenario is that they take you on as a junior eventually, worst case is they don't but at least you have gained some valuable experience to note on your resume and hopefully some tips from the people there. Possibly the best tip I can give you when putting a presentable portfolio together when looking for work is DO NOT make the 'new & shiny' the focus, 9/10 agencies don't care if you can throw a square across the screen and morph it into a circle with nothing but CSS and jedi mind power they want to see bulletproof code and well thought out designs. Don't get me wrong keeping with the times is important and having a solid understanding of the way the web is moving is invaluable but don't take it to the point that the rest of your code suffers just to get that extra little bit of sparkle in there. Also in agencies, even the smaller ones you may have people with more specific jobs (Developer, Front-end, Designer) so rather than trying to cover everything really sit down and work out where your strengths are or the parts you really enjoy and refine them. I'm sleepy so I'm going to stop typing now

- Nobody, ever.

Float the divs. This is the bedrock of creating modern sites, you really need to take a step back and learn what you are doing rather than mashing a few scripts together then coming to a forum to ask someone to do work for you.

You have my consent to waste your money, time and sanity.

Mike types faster than I do. Love that comic !

Yeah but new cars have better features, better safety, better reliability, better fuel economy. Just generally improve on what is available on the market at the time. New social networks always just copy what's popular and can never compete because people can't be bothered with the sidegrade.

Coding: Espresso/Sublime Text 2 Graphics: Photoshop, Illustrator, Icons Express Preprocessing: Codekit Version control: Git for version, Beanstalk for deployment. Tower to handle both in a GUI FTP: Transmit 4 (or the built in sync from espresso) SQL: Sequel Local: MAMP Pro Testing: Mac native Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome and Browserstack iOS Simulator, A handful of varied mobile devices. I've just retired my Virtual machines of (Xp w/ ie6), (Xp w/ie7), (Win7 w/ ie8), (Win7 w/ie9, chrome, opera, firefox), (Debian 5 w/ chromium, firefox, opera) since it was a nightmare when it came around to IE testing/previewing then Browserstack came along and everything was right with the world. edit: Awful grammar.

It's a super valid point, it just really needs to be hammered in to make sure !