Designer - Introduction

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Hi everyone,

Just thought I'd introduce myself to some fellow Rails users.

I'm a Web Designer based in Glasgow, Scotland and have over 6 years industry experience as a Senior Designer, having previously worked for a graphic design agency before becoming freelance early this year.

During that time I worked on many Rails projects. What role a designer has in a Rails project seems to vary greatly according to some of the designers and programmers posts i read. However I can assure you I don't just create the pretty graphics and send my developer a layered photoshop file. I get involved with everything from scoping and specification, design, building standards compliant HTML and CSS, integrating the HTML and CSS into the Rails environment while keeping everything neat and tidy between me and the team with SVN.

You can see some of the projects I have completed on my portfolio site http://www.ascreativedesign.com

Thanks

Andy AS Creative Design http://www.ascreativedesign.com

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Hello Sir... Nice to see you here in the group. Can you please tell me how to use Apache web server wit rails. I am not able to configure it. NB - I am using Windows 7.

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Hi Gautam,

Thanks for the hello. I think that question would be better answered by a developer... in other words I don't know.

Sorry I couldn't be of help

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AS Creative Design wrote:

Hi everyone,

Just thought I'd introduce myself to some fellow Rails users.

I'm a Web Designer based in Glasgow, Scotland and have over 6 years industry experience as a Senior Designer, having previously worked for a graphic design agency before becoming freelance early this year.

During that time I worked on many Rails projects. What role a designer has in a Rails project seems to vary greatly according to some of the designers and programmers posts i read. However I can assure you I don't just create the pretty graphics and send my developer a layered photoshop file. I get involved with everything from scoping and specification, design, building standards compliant HTML and CSS, integrating the HTML and CSS into the Rails environment while keeping everything neat and tidy between me and the team with SVN.

You can see some of the projects I have completed on my portfolio site http://www.ascreativedesign.com

Thanks

Andy AS Creative Design http://www.ascreativedesign.com

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the intro. Those are some stunning designs you've put together. I'm always a little in awe of designers - it's a skill i've never had and never will.

Welcome to the rails group.

Jon

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Hi Jon,

Thanks for the welcome and kind words. It's not always easy to reach a design solution... what is it they say... 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration! which is very true!!

Thanks again,

Andy