I can’t stand assholes who ruin it for the rest of us. I work my tail off learning, promoting, and honing my skills as a Freelance Web Designer…and some douches just deserve a good flogging…
10. You use a self-appointed adjective in your domain name
9. You use the same self-appointed adjective to describe your “deals”
8. You don’t return phone calls
7. Your first name takes up 975×250 pixels of your header image
6. Your self-portrait photo has the warm glow of a 19 inch CRT monitor for lighting
5. You have no idea how to create anything original, so every one of your “new” blogs look strikingly similar to your previous blog
4. You pretend to “blog” about industry news…but really, you are just keyword stuffing
3. Your Photoshop skills rival that of my 4 year old
2. You spam Twitter telling everyone how great your self-appointed adjective describing deals are using every #webdesign hash known to man, instead of letting it spread virally
AND THE #1 SIGN YOU’RE A WEB DESIGN HACK:
1. You tweet your price list, but instead of link to your blog – its a poorly formatted (right justified) Google document
If this pisses you off…good. You’re giving us real freelancers a bad name. Now go learn how to use Photoshop!
(thanks to failblog.org for the pic – and my four year old for allowing me to use his skills to compare and contrast)
11. You make up words like “sudo” and “flirst” – Oh, wait…
OOPS!
;-)
at least they’re ORIGINAL!!! :)
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This is hilarious. I am total Newbie to coding and bought Thesis as a framework in May to begin learning how to customize my site and blog about my personal interests. I sure as hell hope I don't fall into this douche-bag category. All of my thesis customizations have been learned from either you, @Matt425, @mattonomics, @godhammer or @girliegeek.
Either way, thought it was a funny article, even if I fall into the “hack” category. One thing I do NOT do is spam twitter broadcasting that I am some sort of expert by any means.
RB
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Ouch. Lots of my blog complement with #9, #7, and #3.
Ouch. Lots of my blog complement with #9, #7, and #3.
Ouch. Lots of my blog complement with #9, #7, and #3.
That is hysterical. I love the sign. You got me laughing on that one.
:D I haven’t read this in a while, it made me chuckle too