Life in School and Startup

Well I haven’t written in almost a month but the last time I did it was about the trials and tribulations of an amateur trying his hand at web design. I’m proud to say that my skills have increased dramatically since the last time I wrote. The web site is almost done and, being that it’s the first web site I’ve ever done and all, I’m pretty impressed with myself. To a lot of people and EVERY person that has experience with web design, it’s going to be clear that it was done by an amateur but that’s ok. There are some clear issues in uniformity (read: fonts and use of color is a bit haphazard at times) but overall I’m happy with the job I’ve done. Most likely, we’ll take what I did and turn it over to someone with some real talent to really pull everything together. But deadlines are deadlines and we’re trying to get YC and TechStars applications out so the web site needs to be up.
We’re both at points in our lives where there will never be a time where we don’t have work that we could be doing and I don’t see this changing for the next…3 years or so. Wish us luck on our YC and TechStars apps.

Today…was a long day.

I spent probably 3 hours bouncing around between drawing and screwing around with html trying to do a mock-up for JUST THE LANDING PAGE. All I have to say is holy f*cking sh*t. Being less than proficient at both makes getting anything in the design realm done such a pain. So today I’ve made a pact with myself. I’m really going to jump head first into web design.

I might spend fifty to one hundred hours getting where I want with my web design skills. But in the long run, I’m going to save one thousand hours that are lost due to my #bigfail web design skills.

HTML and CSS aren’t really the problem. It’s photoshop. And learning how to integrate my HTML and CSS with the photoshop. Does anyone that does web design have any tips or tools they use that increase their productivity? Anyone use any great teaching tools that they would recommend? Open to any and all suggestions.

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Lol 50 to 100 hours to get pretty good at web design. Off by an order…or a magnitude? Probably a few of both #sadface.