1st annualWeb Designer DayMay 31, 2013
@webdesignerdaywww.webdesignerday.com
Hi,
I am Rutger, cofounder in Branding Personality, Coworking
Fullerton, Hensel Hosting.I used to be an airline pilot, now I
build software for the web.
Today, I am going to talk about Web Designer Day
A new annual celebration for web designers.
Other Appreciation Days
Secretary Day well knownWednesday, April 24Administrative
Professionals' Day 2013
Sys Admin Day - End of July we helped organize in 2009
Community Manager Day
But no Web Designer Day
Tim Berners Lee - WWW
Where did it all start?
To get an idea of what web designers do, let's start with a
little history:
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The internet history is a long chain of eventsARPANET
TCP/IPDifferent protocols like Gopher
Then Berners-Lee invented World Wide Web WWW 1991
He published it to become widespread
First Browsers
Marc Andreessen built Mosaic later Netscape
The result, NCSA Mosaic, was the first web browser with the
ability to display text and images inline, meaning you could put
pictures and text on the same page together, in the same
window!
And, wow, it was easy. If you wanted to go somewhere, you just
clicked. Links were blue and underlined, easy to pick out. You
could follow your own virtual trail of breadcrumbs backwards by
clicking the big button up there in the corner.
Websites 1995
Here are some websites from around 1995
Google, top leftAmazon bottom leftYahoo top rightCraigslist
Generally the technology was in it's early stages so you could
not do too much, but designs were really really simple and
generally pretty ugly :) remember geocity websites?
Websites 2013
Same websites from today:
Google, top leftAmazon bottom leftYahoo top rightCraigslist
Even though these specific companies have not changed their
philosophy much, their websites have gone through a billion
revisions, making them ever more effective
IE6
By who? Web DesignersWeb designers have been paving the way
forward.
They have to master new technologies every dayMaking websites
work in new browsers and keep them working in very old dinosaur
browsers like IE6
When Google stopped supporting IE6 in 2010, it was good news,
but some clients still want support for it.If you want to upset a
webdesigner mention IE6... :)
As the world becomes increasingly more dependent on the
internet, web designers need to keep pushing their skills
forward
Wireframes
The challenge of a web designer is not to create a product that
is self-satisfying, but to make a product that satisfies the
aesthetic and ease of use needs of others. Designers cater to
people and to the public. Their work is not for personal use alone;
it is created so that peoples use of the web on their computers,
tablets, and phones is easier and more pleasurable.
Without their dedication to their craft, the Internet would be
challenging to navigate and frustrating to look at. All the
valuable resources we take for granted day in and day out are
carefully crafted by designers so we use them with ease and forget
about the how things would be in a harshly laid out webpage.
364 days of hard work
364 days per year they're working way too hard
To make your deadlinesTo finish those numerous changes
Read clientsfromhell.net !
Subject: Need this started ASAP!
Message: I had to take an emergency trip to the Bahamas for a
yoga meditation retreat. Can you get started right now, so I can
have it by Monday?
Here's Web Designer Day
Here's Web Designer Day
We're going to put an end to the suffering at least 1 day a
year.
This is the website's homepage
Shower with Ferraris
If we have it our way, just 1 day per year, web designers will
be showered with Ferrari's...
So on May 31st look up or you may get hit by a Ferrari
Sign up
Our website is a place to upload your design.
We have a contest with many prizes and more coming.
You can sign up as a DesignerOr as an appreciator.
An appreciator can cast 3 votes on his favorite designs
The top voted designs will receive the best prizes. We'll try to
get everyone a prize.
Prizes
As of March, we already have an iPad mini, very cool t-shirts
and 1 year of wordpress webhosting including domain
And we are looking for a lot more sponsors for prizes so that we
can give all web designers prizes around the world
Gift Ideas
Besides the contest it's very much a place to get inspiration on
how to appreciate your web designer.
You can read more about web designers and get ideas about
gifts
Design Gallery
We have a design gallery where you can browse all the designs
that have been submitted
It is ordered by the number of votesWhen you hover over a
design, you get some more information
You can click on a design to see the design up close
Designs
This is an example of a designers page. People can leave a nice
comment on the left for their web designer and cast a vote on the
page
It shows the designers contact info (twitter, website)
And there's a link to the website of the design
May 31, 2013
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1st annual Web Designer Day will be held on May 31, 2013
That's about 2 months from now.
We expect it to grow significantly the closer we get to the
actual day, but we want to get as much momentum as we can get early
on
Future Functionality
Keep track of events (parties on WDD)
Up/down voting of prizes by designers
Winners/sponsors per country
Translation in many languages
Keep track of events (parties on WDD)
Up/down voting of prizes by designers
Winners/sponsors per country
Translation in many languages
About Us
Thanks to:Rutger and Robert have been working on this for the
past yearLuuk and Petra are on the Hensel Hosting team and work on
the promotionMaks from Branding Personality has been working on the
website development and the BP team will work on promotionKneadle
has kindly sponsored the web design and given great feedbackVery
valuable feedback from many different people like Marieke, Matthew,
Jordan and many many others.
How can you help?
Our main goal is to get all web designersappreciation for what
they do
If you love this, please tweet about it
Ask web designers to sign up
We need more sponsors, to give more prizes
Any feedback
Help organize a party in your city!
Our goal is to get all web designers appreciation for what they
do
So we need all web designers on boardWe need more sponsors so we
can give more prizes
We need more feedback
Please spread the word to web designers to sign up
Attribution
Thank you for these images via compfight from Flickr.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/webco/ - Tim Berners Lee
photohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/oxox/ - webdesigner with head in
handshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/slworking/ - passed out on
keyboardhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/izzacarspotting/ -
ferrarishttp://www.flickr.com/photos/carloswes/ - ie6
riphttp://www.flickr.com/photos/lukew/ - girl with devices
Questions, comments?Contact me @rutger
