My fav portfolio sites

	- very personal with designers face as main focus of page - simplicity - good amount of white space for text and images
	- very personal making me to believe that they stand in front of their work - good separation - good use of social network sites
	- large images used to display designs - simplicity
	- looks more like a poster than a traditional website - no boundaries as to what you can include

What we've cover thus far...

Looking back over the past month and the courses we have taken, I think the one by far that I find to be the most useful is Photoshop. I think the most important thing on a website is to have the layout simple, user friendly and eye catching. With Photoshop, you can take an idea and lay it all out. Create a mock up of exactly what you have visioned and make it happen. Once you have the look and style you want, you can run with it with any other program. Edit, it in Dreamweaver, add some nice Flash animation, edit that in After Effects and you have yourself a nice site! But, in my opinion, Photoshop is the core of it all!

What have you learned from being a client that will make you a better designer/developer?

In class this week, we had to group up with someone and play the role of the designer and the client. It was good for us to be able to look at both side as the client as well as the designer to get a better idea of what is expected from both sides. As the client, as well as the developer I have learned the importance of clear communication. There is nothing worse than a client describing to the designer what the are after and the designer coming back with something that was not at all what they had in mind. As a designer, you dont want to have to do it twice if you dont have to.