In Response to Marco
I object to this. First of all, the tone is condescending and dismissive: “to the casual onlooker” implies that professionals wouldn’t fault you, and we (?) mere amateurs aren’t qualified to judge the quality of your work.
I really didn’t mean it in that way. I meant, casual onlookers as anybody that doesn’t know how we got started - I think anybody has the right to critique our work.
Why is it acceptable for you to make sloppy amateur mistakes in unpaid work? You’re using it as examples when soliciting design work at a very premium price. You’re effectively saying, “I want you to pay a lot of money for our premium service, and here are some examples of my work, but it’s not very good because I did it for free. Don’t worry, though. I’ll be better when you pay me $1000”
You’re absolutely right and I see how it comes off. We weren’t planning to launch Tumblize while we did most of that work and we totally forgot that we hadn’t browser tested some of it. That being said, we are using it in our portfolio and past projects (even the pro bono ones) absolutely should have been browser tested. We scrambled to get them tested this afternoon after Richard pointed the issues with IE.
That shows a lack of good craftsmanship and pride in your work. It’s not that your work has flaws — nobody’s perfect. It’s your attitude toward them: “I don’t need to fix those. They’re not important. That job wasn’t worth doing acceptably.”
I wasn’t saying they aren’t problems or we don’t need to fix them - I was just trying to explain why they were there in the first place. Since I posted we’ve been scrambling to get everything properly browser tested - which we should have done in the first place.
I take pride in my work, even if it makes me $0 and I’m the only one to ever see it. Why are you excusing major flaws in your work for the same reason?
We do too, and hopefully when you see our future work you’ll believe me.
(This is also a great time to gently remind you that the preferred generic term for a Tumblr site is “a tumblelog”, not “a Tumblr”. The latter use can cause problems.)
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