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Intermediate Interactive Web Designer Needed
| Location: | Mississauga, ON, Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Job Type: | Permanent |
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| Posted: | 22nd Jan 2010 |
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| Closing Date: | 19th Feb 2010 |
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| Posted By: | Pause Productions |
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| Details: | |
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Intermediate Interactive Web Designer Needed
Pause Productions is a small development house looking for a talented and skillful 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 technology and building solutions as we do. You should have a drive to devour information and personally improve your skill set and discipline. We're a small, rapidly growing, privately-owned company who makes providing a fun and comfortable work environment for our employees the top priority. We provide plenty of opportunity for growth both professionally and technically, and 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 design experience with an existing portfolio of projects to show. Though sites in production show your experience level, spec design work can be provided to show your talent and initiative. While we admire the entrepreneurial spirit, we are not looking to hire a marketing company. In this case we require a full time employee to collaborate at our offices.
HTML / CSS
Dreamweaver and 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 obsess 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, IE8 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. Viewing your pages in Lynx is just as workable as in the newest versions of Firefox.
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 can work with existing client materials (logos, colour schemes, and existing web sites) as well as create them for clients who have none. Our clients range from companies with a larger budget who ask us to implement the design from highly experienced marketing firms to small companies that require guidance and rely on our eye for clean design to convey their message from start to finish. You should be able to take a finished PSD from another design firm and turn it into workable HTML or be creative and come up with your own ideas and designs with very little input from the client. You have a portfolio of designs (any of: websites, logos, brochures, business cards, etc) you've developed as well as sites you've worked on.
UI Design
At Pause we build complex web applications and backend business management 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 what we need.
Template Systems
Familiarity with Smarty or similar templating engines will be an asset. 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.
JavaScript and Flash
The developers that will be available to you at Pause will have ample knowledge of how to write code for rich interactive experiences, but it will be imperative that you have the ability to implement provided solutions to enhance the UI experience. You either know how to make JavaScript and CSS work together for cross-browser interactive navigational menus and forms or at least have the willingness and aptitude to learn and improve these skills. Flash design capabilities are not a must, but helpful for banner ads and introductory pages.
People Skills
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.
We are looking for full-time employees to work at our office in Mississauga. We are not considering marketing agencies, outsourcing, contract workers, or telecommuting. Thank you for your interest, but applications seeking these types of employment will be discarded.
* At this time we only accept applications for Web Designer at this email address. If you are applying for one of our other positions there is a different application process in place, please check that particular position's page for details. Applications sent to this address for anything other than this position will be ignored. Thank you. |
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