Category Archives: career

12 Reasons to Volunteer Your Time to Your Community

Jul
17
2009

Hillaries Beach

I have volunteered and helped out a good number of professional, sporting and community groups over the years;  up till now I have never really questioned why I do it. I guess it’s just the drive to make a difference.  Now with my 2 year stint as the Treasurer of the Australian Web Industry Association coming to a close maybe it’s time to reflect on why I nominate myself for such things and what the benefits of volunteering for your community are:

A Review – The Principles of Successful Freelancing

Dec
2
2008

The Principles of Successful Freelancing

Rating:
4

Being a freelancer is the new black.  It’s just a crazy fun loving world where nothing can go wrong. Well as a crusty old freelancer I can tell you that’s far from the truth.

Well Miles Burke in his new book The Principles of Successful Freelancing discusses just that.  Miles is no stranger to making the leap into world of freelancing having done it three times.

9 Skills to Supplement Design

Oct
18
2008

Shag Bar...okay

I was having a discussion the other day with some fellow web designer friends on the skills that you required to be stay in this field long term.

Sure we all agreed you need to at least have the core design skills, understanding of layout, colour theory, typography and the usual tricks of the trade. The platform that you used to deliver your designs was immaterial, be that Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks or the like it didn’t really matter, the end result was what was important. That’s a given.

Internship, Graduate or Apprenticeship

Apr
13
2008

Sydney Tafe

During last week I trotted off to give a talk on career directions in the local web industry to a group of high school students.

This got me thinking about the best fit for career directions in the web industry. Seems I’m not alone, Alex Graham also has the same concerns.

It basically comes down to:

  • Study at University or TAFE and then trying to get a job with limited experience.
  • Doing an apprenticeship, studying part time while getting real hands on experience.
  • Doing an internship in your final year.
  • Setting up your own business.