PauseMan
October 4th, 2007, 03:51 PM
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Pause Productions is a small development house looking for an experienced web designer with HTML templating and CSS layout techniques. This challenging full-time position requires an eye for design, excellent Photoshop skills, and the ability to create the final HTML templates.
We are looking for people who love what they do and share the same passion for superb design and UI solutions as we do. You should have a drive to devour information and personally improve your skill set and discipline. As a small, rapidly growing privately owned company, we provide a comfortable and entertaining environment in which to work and a place that provides opportunity for growth both professionally and technically. By working directly with the company's principals, your demonstration of exceptional growth, commitment, and achievement will be rewarded.
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
Successful applicants will have proven design experience with an existing portfolio of projects to show.
Photoshop
You are a Photoshop guru. You create eye catching and unique functional designs as easily as you slice up existing PSDs you receive from a client. You work with existing client materials (logos, colour schemes, and existing web sites) as well as create them for clients who have none. You should be creative and able to come up with your own ideas and designs with very little input, as well as taking a finished PSD from another design firm and turning it into workable HTML. You have a portfolio of designs (any of: websites, logos, brochures, business cards, etc) you've developed as well as actual sites you've worked on.
HTML / CSS
WYSIWYG editors are for noobs. Photoshop's "Save for Web" and Word's "Save as HTML" features give you cold sweats. You write W3C compliant HTML with a text editor (in your sleep!) since crafting readable HTML is an art form. You are a CSS master, and obssess over the smallest details and imperfections. You know what the underscore hack is and can use it successfully to cajole IE6 back into line with IE7 and Firefox. You know that Safari is not a vacation, and for you cross-platform testing is simply "something fun to do". You can explain the box model and em to your grandmother and have her understand it. You live for the perfect blend of eye candy and functional usability. Viewing your pages in Lynx is just as workable as in the newest versions of Firefox.
UI Design
At Pause we build complex web applications and backend business managamenet systems. The complexity involved in a particular piece of business logic needs to be distilled into a usable, intuitive interface for the end-user. Part of your job is to understand good UI design principles and basic human nature and then applying that knowledge to the designs and interfaces you create and build. This is vitally important and you will be asked to demonstrate your abilities. Eye candy is easy, but the balance between eye candy and usability is difficult.
Template Systems
You should have some familiarity with Smarty or similar templating engines. You will not be expected to develop in PHP or write SQL queries, but you will need to (eg) loop through arrays provided to you by the backend code and develop conditional if/then/else sections within the finished templates.
Experience
As critical as your design skills, we need our employees to have real world experience dealing with customers and the ability to manage your tasks in order to meet deadlines. You will need to be able to successfully communicate with clients and translate business requirements into functioning interfaces. You should be able to take a request from a customer, understand their underlying needs (asking the right questions if necessary), and then implement a solution that fills the request.
Education
Note that formal education is not as important to this position as is practical (aka "real world") experience. If you've been designing beautiful and functional layouts instead of attending classes, we still want to hear from you.
COMPENSATION AND HOW TO APPLY
These are full-time on-site positions with a full benefits package. We offer a competitive salary based on the position being offered and the successful applicant's knowledge and level of experience.
How to Apply
Does the above description sounds like you? We'd like to hear from you! Apply online at http://jobs.pause.ca/ (at this time we are not accepting phone calls or emails).
Pause Productions is a small development house looking for an experienced web designer with HTML templating and CSS layout techniques. This challenging full-time position requires an eye for design, excellent Photoshop skills, and the ability to create the final HTML templates.
We are looking for people who love what they do and share the same passion for superb design and UI solutions as we do. You should have a drive to devour information and personally improve your skill set and discipline. As a small, rapidly growing privately owned company, we provide a comfortable and entertaining environment in which to work and a place that provides opportunity for growth both professionally and technically. By working directly with the company's principals, your demonstration of exceptional growth, commitment, and achievement will be rewarded.
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
Successful applicants will have proven design experience with an existing portfolio of projects to show.
Photoshop
You are a Photoshop guru. You create eye catching and unique functional designs as easily as you slice up existing PSDs you receive from a client. You work with existing client materials (logos, colour schemes, and existing web sites) as well as create them for clients who have none. You should be creative and able to come up with your own ideas and designs with very little input, as well as taking a finished PSD from another design firm and turning it into workable HTML. You have a portfolio of designs (any of: websites, logos, brochures, business cards, etc) you've developed as well as actual sites you've worked on.
HTML / CSS
WYSIWYG editors are for noobs. Photoshop's "Save for Web" and Word's "Save as HTML" features give you cold sweats. You write W3C compliant HTML with a text editor (in your sleep!) since crafting readable HTML is an art form. You are a CSS master, and obssess over the smallest details and imperfections. You know what the underscore hack is and can use it successfully to cajole IE6 back into line with IE7 and Firefox. You know that Safari is not a vacation, and for you cross-platform testing is simply "something fun to do". You can explain the box model and em to your grandmother and have her understand it. You live for the perfect blend of eye candy and functional usability. Viewing your pages in Lynx is just as workable as in the newest versions of Firefox.
UI Design
At Pause we build complex web applications and backend business managamenet systems. The complexity involved in a particular piece of business logic needs to be distilled into a usable, intuitive interface for the end-user. Part of your job is to understand good UI design principles and basic human nature and then applying that knowledge to the designs and interfaces you create and build. This is vitally important and you will be asked to demonstrate your abilities. Eye candy is easy, but the balance between eye candy and usability is difficult.
Template Systems
You should have some familiarity with Smarty or similar templating engines. You will not be expected to develop in PHP or write SQL queries, but you will need to (eg) loop through arrays provided to you by the backend code and develop conditional if/then/else sections within the finished templates.
Experience
As critical as your design skills, we need our employees to have real world experience dealing with customers and the ability to manage your tasks in order to meet deadlines. You will need to be able to successfully communicate with clients and translate business requirements into functioning interfaces. You should be able to take a request from a customer, understand their underlying needs (asking the right questions if necessary), and then implement a solution that fills the request.
Education
Note that formal education is not as important to this position as is practical (aka "real world") experience. If you've been designing beautiful and functional layouts instead of attending classes, we still want to hear from you.
COMPENSATION AND HOW TO APPLY
These are full-time on-site positions with a full benefits package. We offer a competitive salary based on the position being offered and the successful applicant's knowledge and level of experience.
How to Apply
Does the above description sounds like you? We'd like to hear from you! Apply online at http://jobs.pause.ca/ (at this time we are not accepting phone calls or emails).