So I like to keep tabs on the web design jobs at Craigslist, as every now and then an interesting freelance gig pops up. Or I’ll come across a job post that might interest one of my friends.
But I also keep tabs on the web design jobs at Craigslist because the services most people post listings for are ridiculously out of line with what they expect to pay.
It is my great pleasure to announce that the brand spankin’ new website for the Cleveland Web Standards Association is all systems go.
Handshakes, accolades and applause to Brad Dielman, who designed and coded (with a few tweaks here and there by me) our new home on the web.
A few days ago Greg Storey wrote a little something discussing the lack of available talent in the web design/development industry. To summarize, agencies and freelancers alike are swamped to the point of being “slightly crippled“, and there’s just not enough workers to go around.
Going by the reaction in the comments, and from some of my own friends in the web design world around Cleveland, this does seems to be the case. Overflow work abounds and it seems to be a good time to be an experienced web developer. But what if you’re not?
I’d rather pay $400.00 on actual books than on a device
Have a good Thanksgiving.
So by now I’m sure everyone knows that the Writers Guild of America is on strike.
The quick version is that the writers (understandably) want better residual profits from DVD sales, and a fair cut of internet and other “new media“ sales.
Brendan Cullen is a web designer, web adventurer and all-around good guy currently living in Cleveland, Ohio.