Been a while / Advice on a new direction

[Barbara B]

As a one-person shop even if you only concentrate on design and not building or creating what uses the design, you will have customers who will expect/ask you to place their new logo, etc on a web page. So it is important that you have a basic knowledge of web page creation so you can do web page touch-ups or work effectively with the customer's web developer.

If you don't already have JavaScript, CSS and HTML skills or if they need brushing up you might want to check out Codecademy.

It is free, they send out a new lesson each week. It is geared for newbies, even NYC's mayor Michael Bloomburg said his New Year's resolution was to learn how to code JavaScript at Codecademy this year.

And of course if you have the inclination and the luxury of developing a small business website, you really should look at what Xara Web Designer MX has to offer.

[rpc9943]

I'm making a fulltime job living doing graphic design with xara at our wildly successful button company. Go for it, follow your dreams, because there's nothing else ultimately.