Posts Tagged ‘screenshot’

So, let’s say you’re having a problem with your email, or if you’ve found a bug in your web­site. Your first instinct, nat­ur­ally, is to fire off an email to your trusty web-person. But wait! Before you hit send, make sure you’ve included as much detail as possible—what you were trying to do when the error happened, what sort of error mes­sage (if any) you got, what soft­ware you were using at the time, etc. This will help your trusty web-person track down the problem far, far more quickly.

An excel­lent way of sup­ple­menting this inform­a­tion is by sending along a screen­shot. I’ll often request this of cli­ents when I can’t rep­licate a reported bug—if you’ve sent one to begin with, I can be that much more effective.

Here’s how you do it.
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It’s only taken me about half a year, but I’ve finally crossed an item off my per­en­ni­ally growing “to-do” list: add flash to port­folio. I’ve always been fond of this mono­logue from Fear & Loathing, and not solely because it seems like a shop­ping list for debauchery. While I was at it, I added a t&s time cap­sule chron­ic­ling some of the various dif­ferent designs this site has under­gone (that’s another strikeout on my to-do list). And then for good measure (I was on a roll at this point), I added screen­shots of the Brambles Antiques website—both the public site and the admin panel. These days, I’m working with COPAN Off­shore to develop a logo for their new busi­ness, and am painting my bed­room walls a bright gold.

Brambles Antiques is finally fin­ished, com­plete with a fully func­tional backend admin panel. (Screen­shots to follow!) I spent a good long time re-re-re-designing T&S, to what is at least a tem­porary sat­is­fac­tion, and I’ve learned that I’m infin­itely my pick­iest, most annoying, and most demanding client. And I’m refusing to work for myself ever again.