France Slam sounds cool too

@Konrado - 

funny you should say that, I wanted franceslam.com, but it was taken, it was a basketball site.

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Website 604-434-3809
hr@bcitsa.ca
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Application Closing Date: 05/24/2009
Organization: BCIT Student Association
Job Title: Summer Student Web Designer
Job Number: JB7RTKS2
Job Type: Summer/Temporary
Start Date: JUN-01-09
Location (City/Prov): Burnaby BC
Wage: 14.22 per Hour

Job Details

Summer Student Web Designer

Summer term position - June 1 - August 28, 2009 (21 hrs./week)


Summary
The student web designer is responsible for the layout, visual appearance and usability of a website and on-line store by using a combination of graphic design skills and technical knowledge of how web pages are created to achieve the association’s goals. The student web designer reports to the marketing & communications manager.

Job Duties
SA Website & On-line Store
• Assists in the design, coding, testing of technical solutions and fixing all errors.
• Develop creative and other materials in conjunction with the graphic designer to are digitally optimized and presented for the web.
• Applies knowledge of industry trends and developments to improve the student user’s experience.
• Adheres to coding standards defined by technical management.
• Accurately employs our development tools to produce a design that is attractive to students.
• Tests the site for functionality in different browsers and at different resolutions.
• Maintains website and on-line store statistics.

Other Related Duties
• Establish contacts at BCIT and beyond as relates to the department’s objectives
• Support student executives and staff members for their respective initiatives

Supplementary Information
• Excellent working knowledge of writing web pages in a combination of codes, such as HTML and XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Actionscript, ColdFusion, .Net, Flash, or using code-generating programs Dreamweaver.
• Knowledge of graphic design packages such as Fireworks or Photoshop in order to produce basic layout and manipulate images.
• Skills in e-commerce and server side technologies, such as PHP and .Net, and internet security an asset.

Education and Experience (Minimum Requirement)
• Enrolled in post-secondary institution
• 6 months experience in web design

I dig the site. Nice touch with the F logo that rises above the nav bar.

Good luck with finding that internship, shouldn't be too hard to find an unpaid one.
If you haven't already, try looking for non graphic design firms, i.e. a magazine. Just google things that you are interested in around the area and start emailing. It's how I got my gig. They weren't even looking for someone and they started me immediately. Don't depend on listings either. Fortune favours the bold.

Just cold searching, here is something along the lines that might do well for you.

http://www.vancouverfashionezine.com/ It mirrors your interest in fashion and they look like they could use some sprucing up with your help.

http://www.ionmagazine.ca/ Here's another one.

http://stringmagazine.ca/ and another. it's endless.

Go out and sell yourself! Essentially what a life of graphic design ends up being. Your product is you and your portfolio, not so much your credentials. Feel free to give me a shout to talk about it some more: andrew@formatmag.com

Gook luck sweetie :)

i gotta make my site more clean and navigatable like these....