Journal: New Media Landscape (Lecture)
I sat in for a talk earlier during the day by a guest speaker, Lionel Chin, co-founder Ripplewerkz studio. He’s also an ex-TP IIT student of year 2004. Apparently it was his first time talking to a big group of students after many years. Anyway, he talked about the various areas from web-designing to details on web hosting.
The 5 key points Lionel Chin mentioned in his presentation:
- He talked about his experiences in school and the working world, saying that both are totally different things. Although I already know about this, what he said just reassures everything, working is serious business.
- In the working world, you have to meet the expectations of clients, expectations of your boss. Cos as long as money is involved, you can’t play with time and ignore quality work.
- Costs of web-hosting for websites. There is a dedicated web-host, where the site stores all its files and elements in a dedicated storage area and bandwidth. Dedicated web-hosting is more expensive but it lets for a faster page load time. Then there is shared web-host, where multiple website folders share the same storage space and bandwidth, and it is definitely more cheaper than a dedicated host.
- He explained about how much should one charge designing a website, when a student asked about it. I was particularly interested cos I have no idea what the market price is. And my guess was right, it all depends on the project scope he said. But even that I’m unable to gauge a price. All he said was a simple website usually cost $500 – $800. Flash elements incorporated will have a higher price.
- Charges depend on self experience and portfolio. The more impressive the portfolio, the higher you can charge. Hiring a web-designer in a company and a freelancer have its pros and cons, in terms of cost, reliability and possibly the quality of website.
3 things that inspired me:
- All the websites that his company has designed for various clients.
- Sites can be made simple yet beautiful and engaging.
- Inspired me to start designing websites and make functional prototypes for my own portfolio.
The talk wasn’t as fun and engaging as I thought it would be, most of the information conveyed is what I already know or taught of. I’ve been to this web design talk brought by Toteboard (for the website competition I was in). Toteboard invited speakers from various local creative agencies to share about their personal experiences, good and bad, new ideas for the future web, they got the audience involve and they are really enthusiastic and passionate about their job. But I did learn a few new pointers from this talk nonetheless. (:
The name of the speakers:
Ferdinand Gutierrez – General Maganer, Neo@Ogilvy Singapore Visit Site
Benjy Choo – Creative Director, Kilo Studio Visit Site
Melvyn Lim – Creative Director, OgilvyOne Worldwide Visit Site
Sharon Ng – Course Manager/Consultant/Lecturer (New Media) Institute of Systems Science, NUS
