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I've never used it before so I don't have the best advice on that!

awesome! thank you 😊

ah that's so great! good luck with your career-switch journey 😊

I have a 27" LG 4K monitor, nothing too fancy. I like it, I think I was just looking for something somewhat affordable with 4K resolution.

it's hard to say, I should have logged my time so I have a better sense of how long it takes me. I think it probably took around 20-30 hours total maybe?

I'm glad it helped!

hi! are you talking about the classes squarespace uses for each of the text elements? I don't have a list of classes that I use, I usually just look for it in the inspector panel in the web browser (around 6:45 in this video). It's a little bit of work to find the right class, you have to play around with the css to make sure you're using the right one. Or sometimes you can just google it for specific elements, like if you're trying to find the selector to use for quote elements you can google "squarespace quote css selector"

I have a 16-inch 2023 macbook pro with 32gb of memory and Apple M2 Max chip, I think it cost $3,500 when I bought it. which I know is quite pricey, but I expect this laptop to last me a longg time, which is why I splurge on getting the best specs possible.

it's just coincidence 😆 or maybe it was fated for me to become a web designer

it works for me. sometimes if it doesn't work you can try updating your ipad and computer to latest OS and restart both and try again

yes! I agree with this so much, it does feel like design is more about solving problems and coming up with creative solutions, while development is more about coding the designs someone else came up with, at least with front-end development. When I was in corporate I wasn't working on web development, we had our own enterprise software that I was working on, so as the years went by using this one specific technology, I felt like I was obsoleting myself since I wasn't keeping up with any of the new technologies that were coming out. and it was just too much work to study those new technologies in my free time, especially since it wasn't particularly interesting to me.

that's me 😆

I think people who just enter the market have newer and more modern tools to build websites on. I have been on WordPress since 2008 and running my business since 2013 and only did Wordpress until 2022 and easily made 6 figures a year so it can be done. But at some point its good to work with other platforms after you get your first one down

yes exactly what @series5tech said. I think if you're already using Wordpress and have experience with it, that's great. But I was more so talking to people just getting started in web design.

I'm not the best person to ask about that stuff, I'm struggling to figure it out myself 😅

@@jenwebbcreates I asked the same question to one other person and he told me that if I sale digital downloads (no physical products) or services then having a website is enough, no business registration required. He also suggested me to use lemonsqueezy kind of marketplace instead of website.

ah it seems like a lot of people are resonating with this too! are you enjoying software engineering? good luck with everything !

@@jenwebbcreates Yeah so far it's been an incredible journey. Just recently I got my first job as a UI/UX Designer so basically I'm occupied with school and work and i kinda love the journey...😅💻

@@tiktok_trendyz9425 that's amazing!

that's me 😆

so many similarities! I'm curious if you've been able to find a corporate job in UX/UI? or are you doing freelance design work at the moment?

@@jenwebbcreates I had my first 5 yrs corporate job as Front-end, then I tried some free-lancing (during the pandemic), I even took a "Product Design" course in London after. But when applying (last year in 2023) I think it was the worst time to apply to jobs! I mean, LinkedIn took out the "applicantions number" because it was terrible to see But I also have to admit I didn't even try this year when some free-lancing started coming. But it was also all coincidential, so I still have to work in my marketing from now on! But I'll have 2 new (recent most importantly) websites and case studies to show, and as you said it is all about telling everyone! and showing your work! And I'm all up to!

@@simoncallelaverde thanks for sharing! Yeah it does seem like that was a bad time to be looking for work, I'm glad you've been getting some freelancing work though! good luck with everything 😊

I hope it will be a smooth transition too! It's definitely not easy working a full time job and studying for another career path in your free time, but if you hold the vision and don't give up, eventually you'll get there. You got this! good luck 😊

If you like both development and design maybe you can work at a startup or something similar where you can wear both hats. I think any website builder I mentioned would be good (Squarespace, framer, webflow) but they mostly won't involve coding, unless you're doing a lot of custom styling and javascript.

good luck!

thank you for the kind words!

agree, I think large and complex e-commerce sites would require shopify or a custom web app solution

squarespace is definitely easier than building a website from scratch

I don't code as a web designer, for the most part I design and then build out websites using a website builder like squarespace. Front-end web developers are usually working on a team to develop a web app, with full stack developers and designers and others on the team. They would be working on more enterprise-level solutions, while I'm making websites for small business owners and entrepreneurs who want a web presence and maybe an online shop but nothing too complex which would require a custom built web app.

figma!

yes it is hard, I'm still working on that myself but I have been getting some clients who found me from my youtube channel

yay I'm glad 😊

true, I've only used the older version of Wix (I have a client right now with an old website that wasn't built with Wix Studio that I'm helping them update) and I don't love it. but I imagine wix studio would be better. One issue I had was, it's not easy to add custom CSS to change the design exactly how I want it. but maybe they fixed that in wix studio?

so many! Mostly on Skillshare, anything by Aaron Draplin, Lindsay Marsh has some good ones, Daniel Scott if you want to learn Adobe tools. There's probably so many other good ones out there now, these are the big ones I remember from when I was first learning graphic design. now, I watch a lot of youtube videos

it's a lot easier and more efficient to iterate on designs and make changes and compare different versions in figma, than in the website building platform. In fact you can't compare side by side in the website building platform because there's only one version. One of the key concepts of design is to iterate (copy/paste, make changes) until you arrive at something you like. if you just go with the first version you make in the website platform, it's not going to be great. plus there's the added collaboration feature in figma - so you can get quick feedback from the client directly on the wireframes before you spend more time making a final polished design. it's much easier and quicker to change around sketches and wireframes than a polished design.

@@jenwebbcreates thanks for the explanation and feedback. I give it a go and see how it goes. Have a wonderful day.

it is very flexible but personally I don't find it as easy to use as squarespace especially after I hand off the project to the client. if they aren't very tech-savvy and they want to change something on their website in the future, logging in to their wordpress site is like a nightmare for them 😅

plus I think Squarespace has a lot of built in capabilities that you have to find plugins for on wordpress