Heres what Maria Frey has to say about my design:

“What I love most about this site is that it’s clean and well designed for the sake of immediately grasping the artist’s style and personality. The work is front and center and presented in a way that lets you engage with several pieces of work all at once. Although there’s not a ton of copy, what is there has a fun personal tone. When you get into the page for a specific work or project there are nice large images that cycle through and the copy again is brief and out of the way, but still concise and relevant. For more insight into the purpose and thought that went into designing this site, check out the “Terms & Conditions” link in the footer. Way to personalize the legal mumbo jumbo! Overall, nicely designed/laid out site.”

When I read this it made me so happy. I got my job as a web designer with Hava Media about a year ago with only a basic knowledge of web design, being primarily an illustrator. I quickly learned there is so much more to web design than just making something look pretty and you cant apply the same rules to designing a website as you would an illustration. You need to think about the way it is coded, usability, content, browser compatability and thats just to name a few. There has been many times this year that I’ve just felt lost in a sea of geek jargon but I’ve pressed on and I’ve been learning really hard, in and out of the office and now I’m starting to feel really good at it!