SMR Freelancing

I work on a great number of sites for clients. Many look fantastic, which is great. But then I come along with a client request to add or modify the layout. Then I discover some of the horrors of designs.

I could note some here:

• absolute positioning the header and left menu elements
• floating the main content area
• putting CSS styles on html elements like  table and td

This is pure laziness. I suspect these designs have been exported from Photoshop and then “delivered”.

I’m sorry but this is laziness. Sure use photoshop to layout the screen as you would like to see it. But any designer worth their bill should develop the html and graphics by hand to match the photoshop. Such designs are devoid (hopefully) of the issues I mentioned above.

Doing this will save me from getting more gray hairs. So give my wife a break, develop the html by hand not by photoshop export.

Most of work for a living. Sometimes we get consumed by our work. We neglect our kids, sometimes to the point they don’t recognise us. We neglect our parents and relatives.

Sometimes its the right time to step back and discover that friendships and kinship are really what make life matter. Of my close friends two have recently died of cancer. One is very close to death and one can longer communicate.

Its these days I sit back and think, my life with all its troubles of chasing money, arguing with clients and screaming over bills, is nothing. Nothing I say.

So work hard, but always put dollars second and family and friends first. If you do the reverse you may regret it too late.