My sister is an amazing artist and is looking into attending a big-name art school in California next year. She mentioned to me the other day that she has been showing representatives from the school her work through DeviantArt. That’s all fine and good, I suppose, but being a person who hates being “unprofessional” (the reason why being part of Future Business Leaders of America in high school was so alluring to me), I offered to make her a real online portfolio with her own domain name. It’s going to be an interesting experience. She has all the art skills and I have the coding skills, and we’re going to have to put them together for this because it won’t be any good as an art portfolio if she just has me design it. I’m still trying to completely figure out how this is going to work. I don’t mean any offense, but those outside the realm of Web design have little idea about how to design for the Web. I’ve struggled with this in the past with other clients and I’ve became very frustrated when they proclaim such things as, “the text doesn’t wrap the same way as in this magazine!” (Well, of course it doesn’t, because on the Web nothing like that is embedded unless it’s in an image. Typically, this person was very familiar with print design but not with Web design.)
I guess I’m getting off topic. I think what I’ll end up doing is coding a blank template and let her “decorate” it. I’m quite sure the people from the art school will be impressed that she has her own Web site and domain for her portfolio. I’m more excited about it than she is, probably.
PS: No, my sister is not my “client”, I’m doing it for free because I’m nice like that. Plus, it’s going to be fun - and yet another thing to add to my own portfolio that is in desperate need of updating…