Jacci Howard Bear, on About Desktop Publishing, writes about an interesting report on the Desktop Publishing job’s current situation. The report is by The Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, and states an expected growth in the field.

They also report how desktop publishers often required to know web design and I can tell that the report holds true also in Italy and probably in other countries. Looking through job ads, I see many requests for designers who basically have to be able to do print design and web design, while bigger companies tend to leave the two separate.

Print and web design are very different and bigger companies seems to either understand this more or to have more resources to hire professionals who are specialized in those two fields.

There are also other interesting points in the report, but I’ll let you read Jacci’s article on it as she has done a really good job in summarizing it already.

[tags]DTP, Desktop Publishing, design, web design, jobs, business[/tags]

I love blogging and WordPress just makes it an even better experience; it’s a powerful blog platform and you can build an entire website based on it.

I am sure there are many people like me wanting to get in there and do some dirty work to create their own theme, but they just didn’t quite get to it for a reason or another.

Recently I came across two excellent guides, a free one for beginners just about WordPress and another one that goes more indepth, which tackles blogging in general and also WordPress (as well as Movable Type and other things.)

The first guide is from UrbanGiraffe. You will be walked through the dissection of the Kubrick theme and you will reach an understaning of how a WordPress theme works. You will also find out how to install WordPress on your own computer so you can create your own themes without having to use a remote hosting service; you can also use that to create a working back-up of a WordPress blog you already own.

The second guide was suggested to me by Caterine Morley, the project manager of Creative Latitude, and the creator of Designers Who Blog. It’s a book entitled Blog Design Solutions, of which you can read a review on Godbit Project. This is a comprehensive guide and if you want to get into the nitty-gritty stuff, I advise you to purchase it.

For those who are just starting out into web design, here is the basic web design development process as explained visually and clearly by PingMag.

The process might vary from project to project but these guidelines give you a general idea of what steps to take when designing a site. Do you know when and how to build a wireframe? Do you know when the actual creative work starts? Do you know when the programming comes to play? You’ll find the answers in the article.

[tags]HTML, web design, design[/tags]