I am doing a HBO5 education in programming. Meaning I do have some experience in coding. I have been doing graphical work from the age of 12 and all done in self education. So I have some experience in the sector.
But lately I am getting fed up by all the people on forums and in adds that call themselves web designers. What they do is the following.
- Buy a template
- Change the images with some they find on the net
- Upload it on wordpress
- Call it an original design
Now don’t get me wrong here but that is not original. That is cut copy paste. You should not tell the world you made that design. You should not call yourself a web designer. You should call yourself a web editor. Because you edit original content from someone else.
I don’t dislike people who do this and tell the world how they work. But I hate it when they don’t.
Why do I rant about this? Because it are original creators like myself who don’t get jobs because someone else who does this asks 50€ for it and we ask 20€/hour and work for 8 hours on something original (most of the time longer). And when you explain how you work and what they get they say “the other person said he creates everything himself”. Afterwards you ask to show you the original content and they show some wordpress site where you clearly find a folder with the template name.
I hope someone somewhere finds this and changes there behaviour. If only one changes it I am happy.
Sorry for the rant :P