The only reason why I find it entertaining is because of the thrill in getting the opportunity or even a slight chance of exploration towards something I knew I wouldn’t be able to go into. Sometimes, the subject matter does not really have any significant effect in the likelihood of me pursuing it forward in the event where the opportunity given is over-exceeding my initial estimation of its potential behaviour.

It is true when they say that the journey is more important than the first step or the final step of success/failure. It is rare for me to not achieving something I wanted to get, looking at the amount of effort I put in to make it worth the I’ve tried notation, up to the I’ve given it my best label stick to my inner thought when I do some self assesments.

But sometimes trying is not enough. Or maybe, I decided not to try much. Or maybe the act of trying is just a way for us to please the relationship between the brain and the heart – but in reality, we don’t even want to try at all. Conflicts. Or maybe pure ignorance. Or maybe not really “pure” ignorance. Ignorance with a very small act of giving a damn. But with the hope of having it turned into something bigger, as if I’ve really given my best at it.

Web designer, front-end developer, UI expert, UX master, <CMS> developer. This title has been popping up a lot in our scene lately. Add additional points by prefixing the word “freelance” in front.

Thanks to the advancement of flexible open source Content Management System, like WordPress and Joomla (to name a few), it is becoming easier for a lot of people to gain initial momentum in web design ‘so-called’ movement. The abilities to create custom themes, assisted with huge amount of resources and tutorial – available for free in the world wide web – has reduced the effort needed for anyone to jump into the ‘cool’ bandwagon of web designers.

Designing for the web is not as easy as certain people think it is. Having a little knowledge in CSS might not be enough for us to craft the ‘web designer’ title in our one pager porfolio site. In fact, we should be afraid to use that title anywhere. By having only our own website redesigned for 10 times in the porfolio page doesn’t entitle us as a web designer, or any other title listed above. It is a shame that it has been widely used inappropriately without actually depicting the real value and the nature of the title itself. Freelance is not an excuse.

When the freelancers move out of the ‘freelance’ zone to a real working environment in a real company, there are a lot of things need to be re-evaluated.

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