Archive for July, 2009

50 Fresh Portfolio Websites for your Inspiration

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/30/50-fresh-portfolio-websites-for-your-inspiration/

The Roadmap to Becoming a Professional Freelance Web Designer

Exactly as advertised.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/09/the-roadmap-to-becoming-a-professional-freelance-web-designer/

Student Testimonials

While compiling student and graduate surveys and extrapolating statistics, I wondered what words the students used most in their testimonials. Suddenly it hit me: Wordle!

From www.wordle.net: “Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.”

I copied all of the testimonials students had given over the past half a dozen years or so – over 4,000 words – and plugged them into Wordle to see what were the most frequent.

The result was astounding:

Grad Survey Results - Wordle 090707