Thank you Geri. This is a topic that hardly ever comes up (except perhaps when it comes to photography copyright, occasionally), yet it involves the entire industry. Websites are getting big these days, some are massive. So we/people should not expect them to be made by a single person. If anything, it shows that you can work well in a team if you explain who did each role (or at minimum, that you didn’t do it all yourself).
I don’t have a portfolio for a variety of reasons but I do make it extremely clear on my homepage (screenshot) that I am a website developer and that I work with designers.
However, I have worked with people in the past that have almost deliberately taken all of the credit. It got to a point where I preferred working under an NDA so that I was able to charge extra for the fact that they were taking credit. That is one reason why I don’t have a portfolio, and am very glad to no longer be needing use an NDA since I have incredible clients now who do credit me.
I found it was mainly the larger companies/agencies that were the worst, so currently whenever I do any work (I’m not taking on much this year) I always make sure it is with somebody who respects the work that I do… generally designers rather than working through project managers.
My plan is to start working on larger sites again in a year or two, since I have a lot of experience now and would like to work at a larger scale but hopefully between now and then I can find the clients who will be the best match for me and that treat the people they work with properly.
Shane Hudson
Thank you Geri. This is a topic that hardly ever comes up (except perhaps when it comes to photography copyright, occasionally), yet it involves the entire industry. Websites are getting big these days, some are massive. So we/people should not expect them to be made by a single person. If anything, it shows that you can work well in a team if you explain who did each role (or at minimum, that you didn’t do it all yourself).
I don’t have a portfolio for a variety of reasons but I do make it extremely clear on my homepage (screenshot) that I am a website developer and that I work with designers.
However, I have worked with people in the past that have almost deliberately taken all of the credit. It got to a point where I preferred working under an NDA so that I was able to charge extra for the fact that they were taking credit. That is one reason why I don’t have a portfolio, and am very glad to no longer be needing use an NDA since I have incredible clients now who do credit me.
I found it was mainly the larger companies/agencies that were the worst, so currently whenever I do any work (I’m not taking on much this year) I always make sure it is with somebody who respects the work that I do… generally designers rather than working through project managers.
My plan is to start working on larger sites again in a year or two, since I have a lot of experience now and would like to work at a larger scale but hopefully between now and then I can find the clients who will be the best match for me and that treat the people they work with properly.