cb designers future plans, discussion Options

[brooklyneast05]

let's talk about your past and future with graphic design.

what made you initially get into design? for those of you are pretty heavily into designing now, where do you plan to go with it? do you plan to pursue it in college(if you aren't already) or are you planning on doing something else? if you're planning on doing something else professionally, do you think you'll still continue to do design in the future anyway?

[Mikeplyts]

I first got into designing almost a year ago when I saw a layout that my friend had made a layout for me on myspace. I thought it was the bomb (which it wasn't) but I eventually grew old of it so I decided I could design my own. I made my first div with a blinking background and just some separate black content boxes with light red font. I was so accomplished so I decided to take my skills up a notch and began to use Photobucket to design stuff. After that though, I actually figured out I had PSP XI on my computer already and messed around with it. I looked at tutorials from here and a bunch of other sites and eventually just taught myself how to make layouts that actually looked pretty good. Then, I joined CreateBlog.com and tried to submit some stuff. Gabi (schizo) was the first person I interacted with on here when she rejected my first few layouts. I feel kind of ashamed that I threw a fuss at her and called her a bitch. Anyways, she kept giving me some advice and codes that could help me out and soon enough, my layouts were getting accepted! It felt nice to have an approved layout and I kept making more. Then, I experimented some more and started making graphics and writing/studying HTML and CSS. When I had a couple of layouts, graphics, scripts, and tutorials, I decided to put a site at BraveHost.com. The ads were annoying though and the coding I wanted to use wasn't allowed, so I shut it down. Then, around December of 08, my dad got me a hosting plan at FatCow.com and I created mikeplyts.net. Afterwards, I studied a lot more about PHP and Javascript and basically a lot of other syntaxes. I also got Photoshop CS4 at the time and I kept getting advice from here on how to improve my layouts and graphics and I just became better and better. Now, I'm still in the making and I do hope that someday I can pursue graphic and web design in college and even if I don't, I'll still be a freelance graphic and web designer. I pretty have everything planned in my mind.



Sorry for the long read.