Another web-apps has joined Google force. Measure Map is an analytics service designed for bloggers, was developed by Adaptive Path. Jeffrey Veen, an Adaptive Path founder and Product Director for Measure Map, will make the journey to Google along with several other members of the development team.
I hope this bring something good because I want to give a try but I don’t have a Measure Map account and Google Analytics either, they’re both not offering a new account.
For more information about Measure Map and Google’s acquisition, you can read Jeff’s blog post on the Google blog.
Since my first design works until now I still find some clients that cross their line as a client. They always get into the design process and interfere our works. Of course this thing is the designers hate the most. After we gather every information, we start to think about the concept. Based on that information and concept, we start to create the interface and layouts.
The ‘good thing’ is clients sometimes interfering too deep and always break the whole concept that we both agree in the pre-production phase. For example, we agree to use the elegance style, then when we present the design, they want to put a lot of pictures in there. Or we already made the design that inline with their corporate color, they ask us to add more colors that break their own brand rules and the aesthetic side. That’s the best time to educate clients about what corporate communication is about, and the most thing to make them understand that we’re not graphic operators that always say “yes” to whatever our clients like and suck their money. They hire us to give the proper solutions and give suggestions for improvement of their corporate communications. We’re consultants.
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I just figured it out, my website has been listed at CSS Mania. Many thanks to Gabriel Segura and his Blogs Media team for the recognition. Really appreciate it.
update:
I looked at my stats and I just found that I already mentioned at Thomas Marban personal sand box. Thanks, Thomas!
p.s.
My favorite event is coming, CSS Reboot Spring 2006. I’m thinking to participate on that event.
Being an independent contractor aka freelance is what i really want to do since couple years ago. I have the freedom to run my own business. I can have more challenge rather than being an employee.
As an independent contractor, I have to manage all aspect to run the business. I feel like a Superman :). Finding prospective clients and projects, manage the projects and my development team, administration (that I’m not good at it), etc.
That’s why I’m very glad with so many awesome web applications these days. They’re very helpful. Until now these are all the tools that helped me running the business:
With those awesome tools and web-applications as my assistance, I can be more organized for managing and running my business as independent contractor. So thank you very much to all developers of those apps. Keep up the good work!
When I do a design work, I always trying to remember these words, “What is design?”. People always think that a good design is a heavily graphical content, especially for the clients. We think that if our website or other printed materials have a very awesome design then we have a good website or company profile. That’s why many designers has been pushed to show all their design skills.
In earlier year of my career, I couldn’t more agree with that. I always use as much as graphical elements for my website or my clients’. I feel that I’m a good designer. It will be awesome if we have a fully flash websites. We don’t care about our audience. Being an award-winning designers are our dream.
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