Create Sean: Journey to Professional Designer

My first client has sent the deposit to my paypal account via an e-check - looks like it might take a few days to clear. Regardless of that I’m going to operate on faith and get cracking on the site. Unfortunately for me, my wife will be out of town for the next three days and that means evenings spent watching the kids and not getting any work done.

First up is sketching out a potential design on paper based on input from the client - I’ll then scan that and email for feedback. While waiting for the feedback I’ll start setting up the basic layout in xhtml and CSS - columns, rows and floats etc. Width’s, height and exact position will be modified later once I have the graphics ready.

I also need to start getting familiar with wordpress since this client uses wordpress. I’ve never used wordpress before, but I’ve already set up my sandbox where I’ll be developing the theme. First get it working with lorem ipsum text, then add theme to wordpress site and start importing code. If anyone is reading this blog and has advice on a better procedure, I’d be very happy to hear it. This being my first client, I don’t have my workflow finalized and would like to be as streamlined and efficient as possible.