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Beginning of my designing era
Few days back, while I was trying to recover one of Yahoo accounts for some important document, I came across my initial set of web templates that I designed 8 years back! It was year 2000 after summer vacations when my buddy, ra[y]za, explained me what exactly a web template is, and I felt a little interested too. He showed me one of his submissions that were live on FreeWebTemplates.com and couple of people downloaded/reviewed it too. I was into basic websites since 1999, thanks to ra[y]za again! But the idea of template clicked me as well and I designed 2 web templates.
I submitted the layouts on freewebtemplates.com and was waiting for my templates to appear in their showcase. Few weeks passed, I even re-submitted but no luck! After I had lost all hopes, the templates were just like any other spare file on my hard drive because I had designed them for community and not for any client/website. It was after 2-3 months when my friend told me “hey! your templates are online and they’ve reached 10 most downloaded templates” – I was way too happy to see the output. Not sure about the actual figure but I guess it scored 2500+ in 2-3 weeks.
When I came across my designs recently, it actually reminded me of my old layouts. But nevertheless – I really worked hard to improve my designing skills and MashAllah the result has been quite promising. I have taught Photoshop to more than 10 people, have even conducted workshops. Seeing hopeless faces in designing – I always used to tell people ‘it takes some time to move higher..‘ and same happened with me (:
Let me share my 2 layouts that marked the beginning of my precious skill!
For recent work, freel to visit my online portfolio: http://axdimensions.deviantart.com/gallery/
Interesting post…hmmm
From experience, I can say you’ve come a long way
Btw “y” would come after “z” in something you mentioned in the post and it would be doubly interesting for me
And dude, my comments do not require PG check!
@Rambler
Hehe..na, its Muhammad Raza (: Thanks anyway!
You, mussu, are a gem! Ab seekh bhi le thori designing
Yup, still struggling..
Lolz!
Aaalaa!!
nice post… I ll share my animations that I made…
trust me you got some really nice friends… and I got the bad ones in the early days…
they used ma skills to make money and I was just happy to see ma work online!!
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@jingoist
Aww..good luck for future! (: