Classes Canceled and.....

I had planned on going to classes to learn web design but, that will now have to wait until the 2010 fall semester. With my mother in the hospital and my trying to find a job, no 2010 spring semester for me. Once you're in school, you need to put lots of your attention on your classes and your class work. Things right now are not the greatest.

What I should do, in the meantime, is read up on web design myself and see if I can find any mock web design projects to work on. I know, maybe I should try and redesign my blog page. I have thought about that in the past. Thing is, where do I begin?...LOL Nah, I know where to start. I just have to take the time to "DO IT".

Another thing I could do is to go to some of the meet-up groups I've joined on Meetup.com such as Chicago Advertising Professionals Meetup, Chicago Media-Marketing & Advertising Meetup Group, Chicago Stompers, Chicagoland Webmasters: Elmhurst & Western Suburbs, Digital Media; Marketing & Web Professionals in DuPage, Fox Valley Computing Professionals, The Chicago Dreamweaver Meetup Group, The Chicago Graphic Design Meetup Group, The Chicago Photoshop Meetup Group and B 2 B Business Networking Group to learn new and exciting things and to network. Networking is always good.

Only thing is, most of those groups are a bit of a ways out. Right now, I don't have the extra money for (travel) gas and food and/or to go downtown or any other suburbs, it's a little tough. If some of those meet-ups were in my town or no more than some 20/30 minutes, that would be great!

GRAPHIC DESIGNER vs WEB DESIGNER

I've always read that it's easier going from Graphic Desginer to Web Designer than the other way around. I think I agree with that. Anyways...

There is a great difference between a Graphic Designer and a Web Designer. A graphic designer designs for print such as magazines, catalogs, brochures, postcards, fliers, etc. A web designer has to know HTML & CSS, designs banner ads, flash websites, creates e-mail blasts, etc.

LET'S EDUCATE!!

So many company's out there need to be educated on the differences and how they're two different jobs. Even though they both have to know the elements of design and they both have to design good, effective layouts, again, they're both different types of design jobs.

It would be so nice to find a job where I can use my graphic design knowledge along with learning web design on the job. I do have basic HTML knowledge so, that kind of gives me a bit of a head start. Also, I'm a quick learner, and enjoy design. It wouldn't be like web design was foreign to me...LOL