Comments for Jay Hollywood

Comment on Using jQuery to enhance my website by DaneRay

DaneRay — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:57:42 +0000

Truely inspiring site, going to take a few ideas from here and incorporate them into my own. Also very thankful for you page with the shout-outs to those Jquery plug-ins you used, again another great idea to have on your site since there are so many plug-ins to chose from!

Comment on And it’s live. by Ole Fredrik Lie

Ole Fredrik Lie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:36:10 +0000

This website is as close to perfect as it gets! Great level of details, clever use of jQuery. Two big thumbs up! Congratulations

Comment on The creative brief, a designer’s best friend by Filosof

Filosof — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:50:14 +0000

@Jay well… for me works a different approach – I just don’t ask client about it. Their preferences might be quite different from working solution and if they chose ME to do their website, than I am here to choose the right one.

(but I often work for corporate clients… they just trust my decisions as long as website works…)

Comment on Greasemonkey vs. iStock by MJ, Berlin

MJ, Berlin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:12:23 +0000

Hi Jay,

thank you for this script. Works like a charme.

Comment on The creative brief, a designer’s best friend by Jay

Jay — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:35:14 +0000

@Filosof – I understand where you are coming from, but personally disagree. I like to get an understanding of my clients expectations before I go ahead and create something – if they do suggest a right aligned navigation and it’s not appropriate, its at this stage I would discuss this with them. It’s better to prevent a problem before you create one.

Comment on The creative brief, a designer’s best friend by Filosof

Filosof — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:05:05 +0000

@Jay these examples can be dangerous for newbies designers… and also – if my client has preference for navigation on the right and writes it in the brief.. well.. it’s not there to dictate the final solution but perhaps is safer NOT TO ASK

Comment on Why you should hire a freelancer by Jay

Jay — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:12:51 +0000

Thanks for the insightful comments guys.

@Darren – you raise some good points. As mentioned in a few of the other comments – obviously there are good/bad freelancers available and it is important to judge their work as you would with any other professional (business or otherwise).

Yes you could apply these points to larger agency models, but this article is about hiring freelancers and it is communicated as such. I do believe experience is a misconception, and I can think of various examples for both sides of the argument.

Your’re final point is spot on – totally agree.

Comment on Why you should hire a freelancer by Atul

Atul — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:42:45 +0000

Awesome post Jay……i visited your blog for the first time and now i think i should regularly visit your blog to get some helpful tips.

Thanks for posting this article.

Comment on Why you should hire a freelancer by Darren

Darren — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:23:10 +0000

All a bit black and white for me – there are good freelancers and terrible freelancers out there – just as there are agencies/companies. And nearly all of your positive points for freelancers could just as easily be applied to larger agency models if so desired.

“A common misconception is that a freelancer doesn’t hold the experience equivalent to that of a business with several employees” – this isn’t a “misconception”, it’s true.

What’s important is that each business finds the best fit for them – big, small, one man, one hundred man – everyone’s got right partner out there somewhere!

P.S – I’m a one-man-band too.

Comment on Using jQuery to enhance my website by Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:49:56 +0000

A brilliant website Jay, inspiring – you have the rest of us playing catch up big time!!