Reader’s Poll! What’s Your Web Design Resolution for The New Year?

Reader’s Poll! What’s Your Web Design Resolution for The New Year?

It’s the new year… Which means that it’s high time you made a resolution if you haven’t already! Are you going to improve your coding skills? Market yourself more? Finally crack open a new program and learn it? Answer the poll below, then see what other resolutions web designers are making this year!


New Years Resolution Time!

Perhaps it’s all just a grand illusion, but I’ve always felt great about this time of year because there seems to be something magic in the air… people are excited to start new projects and the world seems ripe with opportunity. This kind of atmosphere is great for anyone looking to make some major improvement in their life; It’s for this reason that I think making resolutions is a great habit for any web designer.

Sure, you can make a resolution at any time of the year… but there’s something symbolic about deciding, right now, that you’re going to do something different and productive in the year to come. So, even if losing 20lbs or quitting a nasty habit isn’t on your agenda, take a moment to consider what you want to focus on for the new year that will bring your web design skills to the next level!

In this week’s poll, we’re asking you guys/gals to pick a couple resolutions that you want to make to improve your web design work… and share it with the rest of our readers. You can only pick up to 3 choices, so consider it carefully!

We also just posted our big yearly roundup for 2010/2011 a few days ago, so be sure to check that out if you’re looking for some inspiration for the new year!


Let the Discussion Begin

Making a resolution is great, but when it really gets exciting is being able to talk with other people about it. For web designers, this can be especially fun because you can hear about what sorts of things they want to change in their own work. After you’ve answered the poll question, post a comment down below about what areas you want to work on an why!

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  • http://themeforest.net/user/epicera/portfolio?ref=epicera Brandon Jones
    Author

    My resolutions (which will probably last about a month, haha!):

    1. Start using Fireworks in the way it’s meant to be used (more on this later this month).

    2. Create more products for web designers :)

    3. Make the time to work on some top secret personal projects that I’ve been putting off for a while.

    4. Oh, and start publishing more video screencast content for Webdesigntuts+!

  • http://www.mayfielddigital.co.uk/blog/ David Cole

    For me, one smaller resolution is to incorporate responsive web design techniques into my website builds.

  • http://ccpmultimedia.com Connor Crosby

    My New Years web dev/design resolutions:

    1. Finally decide on a design for my personal blog that I’ve been working on for 7 months

    2. Get more exposure through the web, been getting 99.9% of my clients by word of mouth

    3. Learn more PHP and Javascript

    4. Make better (detailed) designs for sites

    • http://Desigmagazine.us Desigmagazine

      Nine

  • http://ayoungh.co.uk Anthony

    My resolutions:

    Learn as much PHP as i can within the next few months

    Rebuild websites with new designs and features

    Save £

    Become a sole Trader and make the jump to freelance fulltime

    :)

  • Connor Turnbull

    1920×1080

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  • http://brettatkin.com Brett Atkin

    My primary goal is to become an expert using Expression Engine and CodeIgnitor. I’m decent at everything but a master of nothing. It makes it difficult to sell my skills.

  • http://awesome-intern.com James Burke

    My #1 goal for this year is to release web products. I have a few ideas that I’ve been working on pretty heavily over the last few weeks and just need to wrap up and get out there.

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  • http://newarts.at Drazen Mokic

    Don`t get me wrong but could you maybe post more tuts than polls? Would be nice :)

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  • http://designfromwithin.com DESIGNfromWITHIN

    Tomorrow i’ll start my own freelance design company!

  • http://www.visual-blade.com Daquan Wright

    1) Get through Physics/Calculus in my community college so I can continue to acquire my formal education.

    2) Achieve another layer of master over HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP/MySQL/SQL.

    3) Improve my user interface design skills and knowledge of Photoshop, as well as learn Cinema 4D.

    4) Do more development, some Python/C++ programming in particular.

    5) Learn to better manage my time and get a job, hopefully soon!

  • http://fajarsylvana.com Fajar Sylvana

    1) Learn more about html5, CSS3, Jquery, and wordpress.
    2) Do some back end programming like RoR.
    3) Find a freelance remoting job.
    4) finishing my personal website.
    5) Manage a better work time and organizing working files.

  • http://webdesigntome.blogspot.com WD Tome

    1) I want to improve my Photoshop skill

    2) Create something new, creative, unique design, yet acceptable by public