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While studying graphic design, which naively worry about two main issues before going for: its ability to design and customer payments.

But at some point venture into the real world and splat, crashed into the wall code and list of concerns is a bit more complicated.

Suddenly, you find yourself worrying about programming skills, the visual language of code, the latest software and web graphic enhancement.

Now do not get me wrong, I'm for continuing education and multi-task in a creative work, but try to explain the need for a programmer or graphic for a special application to your customer.

Your client does not care about any of its technical aspects. The client who pays you to design an original website and easy to use, blog, social profile, banner, etc do not mind any of that. Customers want their incredible web presence, they want cheap and want it now!

Being a small company or business, you as customers, have to keep up, keeping costs low and the best way to succeed in this is to identify what is holding you back:

Designer Woes

Specialized Skills * Today, many web design skill sets required to meet different market demands. If you do not have them all, or at least most of these, your options are limited to subcontracting the work, learn more skills or refuse to work. Do not kid yourself, even the sharpest tool in the shed does not work alone.

Web Standards * Like most web designers, you can only try to navigate between XHTML know-how and the requirements of design and usability. The "good" news is that over time, you can get pretty good at debugging your code working, Do not be surprised they are not designed anything all week.

* Money Time It is not the price of your new gadget or the time and money that you or your parents invested in the design school. This is to supplement their basic education is specialized autonomous find and pay that can be trusted, and is about keeping your portfolio updated with the job that requires skills that have not learned yet.

Specialized Skills * You're about to spend time and money learning a skill or purchase of software today that will be outdated before perfection. Your client application for the last 'split directories', 'morphing buttons' or what is currently fashionable hunt will send you a never-ending trend. Try to take comfort in the fact that all the trends became standard after a while, but his lifelong career.

* Multi Media everywhere We have the tools to design more and communication services in different locations and formats. The videos on youtube, photobukcet photos, slideshows with blinking, playlists of music - and the list goes on. We must remember and manage all your usernames and passwords, because their environment is all over the place in various formats. Then you have to combine, reformat, integrate and customize them in their design and ultimately, republish again.

Designer Wish List Now that her problems are exposed, I would like to summarize this web page design with the call: Let the designers to be designers! Hallelujah! If you are going to claim to know what you want, and try to define the powers that be:

* Free for all! (* Except for the premium) Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail and editor in chief of Wired Magazine, explains the emergence of "freeconomics": how the technologies that power the Web should go in the same direction - to zero, where everything is free, except for the premium . I could not agree more. Unless they (consumers) need a certain amount extra / options / services for a specific job, we would like free web hosting, free domain names free of document management, free bandwidth, free services business , etc.

* No programming (ERS) required You own the design phase of web design, but it would be great if we could simply select and aim to create animations, characters, vector or other design components based on the code or vector studies. This request is: no need to learn + code without having to outsource all.

* Stay individual Would not it be nice if you had one place for all media that has accumulated over the years? A unique platform to customize each object, the text layer? It is not just for you is for your customers, because after you have completed the design stage, wants to hand over the keys to a responsible and friendly website to update themselves. Obviously, it is important for you and your clients to have a presence that covers all web. As you need a single point for managing the appearance and usability of your website different nodes. Want to easily change the appearance of your website, blog, banner, etc. social profile to add or eliminate all forms of media, and while you're at it you appreciate some of personalized search, brand and ability to link from one place.

* Rights and duties You want a steady accumulation and diversification of styles, objects, effects, layers, characters and scenarios in a design platform. Want a library mostly royalty free content, which also encourages the contribution of design (with the exception of having to pay for items specialized design). You want to support its field of design to his teammates and vice versa.