Any Dublin Companies Hiring Web Designers?

NeVeR

Since i last posted i have brushed up on a few skills
well i like to think i have

last time i posted this kind of stuff

http://www.webhostingforums.net/newtemplate.jpg
and
http://www.webhostingforums.net/template23.gif

I didnt really like them myself, so i pushed my self a little bit more

i made a few designs, each getting a little better as time went on( Well i thought so)

1st template i made
http://www.webhostingforums.net/bb/1/ --- not my favourite

then i worked a little more and made this
http://www.webhostingforums.net/bb/2 -- i like it ,

once again i pushed more and made this

http://www.webhostingforums.net/bb/3/11f.htm -- well i like this aswell

then today i gave it a big push (hehehe)
http://www.webhostingforums.net/bb/5 -- i really like this design,

I know with a little more time and practice i will make better designs.

If anyone would like to offer me a job (Please i'm a hard worker.) PM me or e-mail me or phone me, I will give my number when you PM me


Also if you know of any companies offering jobs please be a mate and let me know,

Thanks
regards
David.

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I doubt it.

To be honest there's a lot of web designer's out there looking for jobs with more experience and better quality work than you.

I'd suggest a couple of things.

1) Read up on design, not web design as much as possible and learn more.
2) Get a decent portfolio page together, just posting up links isn't going to impress many people
3) Ask your friends, parents realtives etc.. if they have any contacts and see if you can get a general HTML monkey work in companies.
4) Try get some freelance work through the aforementioned contacts.

Good Luck,

- Kevin

damnyanks

Your designs are fairly bland. Although your later works I did like the logo with the little sort of flash but thats all that stuck out.

Kali

Aye I'd agree with Kev.. quite frankly being able to put together an ok template isn't enough these days.. go learn a few scripting languages and know your macromedia products inside out and back to front (and how to get the best out of them).

Only then start thinking about a portfolio or doing the odd site for free to build up a repetoire of live sites to point prospective employers at.

The very least I'd expect from anyone looking for a web design job would be to have working knowledge of PHP, CSS, Perl, Javascript and Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks, and again at the very least knowldge of basic SQL and table design.

Go pimp your services to friends, family, aquaintances etc. for free.. thats the best bet tbh.. not here

theciscokid

http://www.webhostingforums.net/bb/5

thats really good, great use of colour !!:p

logic1

Originally posted by Kali
The very least I'd expect from anyone looking for a web design job would be to have working knowledge of PHP, CSS, Perl, Javascript and Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks, and again at the very least knowldge of basic SQL and table design.

Well that's a load of crap Kali. I know dozens of web designers and NONE of them are expected to know any scripting or backend languages. Their designers not coders. They know photoshop, illustrator, flash, fireworks and WYSIWYG design.

Only very, very small companies would try to hire a web designer/coder in one.

Bad form and bad advice.

If it's web design you want to do then get into design, graphic design, photography, type and maybe illustration. If you don't want to work on backends then don't code. Simple as that.

.logic.

RicardoSmith

Its kinda two roles. Web designer/Web developer IMO. Though I do think most companies expect "Web designers" to be able to do some scripting themselves, especially in the smaller companies where you are more likely to find work. Larger companies who employ designers and don't expect them to code are few and far between.

Besides personally I think you can't design webpages without knowing how they are put together. Otherwise you'll come up with designs that are unpractical and unusable from a coding point of view. If you know how they are put together then you can do some level of scripting/coding anyway.

NeVeR

Did I say I didn’t know any programming languages?

NO!!!

You just assumed I didn’t know any.

Ah well. I got a job in Audio Vision today. and i dont work from Home. So I’m happy


Logic1 :: Thanks for the Back up

Kali

Originally posted by logic1

Only very, very small companies would try to hire a web designer/coder in one.

Err go read his post, and look at the designs, somehow I can't see this guy applying for lead designer for a multinational right now and as far as his post made out he is looking for a starting or trainee position job to build up experience, which WILL entail some sort of content & backend, limiting yourself to just web design will mean your much less likely to get a job.. who's going to put the content in once the design is made? wheres it going to go?

I know dozens of web designers and NONE of them are expected to know any scripting or backend languages

Are they specialist multimedia ppl? They're are a totally different kettle of fish and very rarely exclusively web designers... but even if they are, I seriously doubt they don't know any JS or even stylesheets (completly regardless of how much of it is churned out automatically by design tools).

[edit]
good to see you've found a position NeVer...

Did I say I didn’t know any programming languages?
NO!!!
You just assumed I didn’t know any.

No I assumed you were limiting yourself solely to design, and added that a general knowledge of scripting can help, which again as I've stated above isn't the best approach these days..
Anyway all pointless now... enjoy your job

leeroybrown

Unless I'm mistaken none of those templates even had a full style sheet.

Your use of fonts (in HTML) needs work. (CSS helps)

As for PHP, etc. Having a few extra strings in your bow alwasy helps. Web designers will probably end up doing design includes for php.

Also,. a good design is about more than a single page so you should be looking to put together a portfolio of good working sites.