You may well ask. In fact I don't have one on-line. I can point you at a few web sites that I have worked on but web sites are a team effort and I can't take the credit for the content or design of a lot of the most successful web sites I have had a hand in. The ones I'm not proud of I would rather you didn't see (for obvious reasons! :-)).
Some of them I wouldn't want you to see because the client may have insisted on a particular issue and as they are paying the piper... I have to dance.
Sabrina Dent, the well known and fabulous web site designer in Cork has suggested that we web designers should write a Standardised Stalinist Web Design Manifesto, maybe slightly tongue in check, but I tend to go along with the sentiment.
Many designers, myself included have spent sleepless nights studying and learning from our own mistakes. We are persistent souls. We have developed 'an eye'. We look at something called 'white space'. This is why you pay designers to design something for you! We cry when we make a design in nice colours and you say "Well by wife thinks it would look better in pink".
If you want to design your own flyer/web site/whatever, do go ahead and have a go. Many good designers started like that. But if you want it done well, pay someone who has trained and most importantly learnt a few of the basic lessons.
Have a look at my template design site at 51-designs.com if you want to get an idea of what I do.
(See also >> Typography for Lawyers)
