Hi all,
I am thinking about changing my user name that I use for practically everything to something different. I'm finishing my second year of design school and would eventually like to put a portfolio up online. I'd like for people to be able to search my user name and find my site. Right now my current name is hard to pronounce and isn't an actual word.
It is the words last + blue mixed up a bunch. It is also the name of a character I play in an online game. Lsat Blu. I use this screen name for everything basically.
I made a flickr account with my real firstname.lastname and uploaded some art but my firstname.lastname does not connect to the name I use for my email and on every forum. I'd like to have it all be one thing. I could use my first name on forums but I don't think I want my last name everywhere. Especially since no one would be able to pronounce it. I could do my first initial.lastname but that would still look strange.
The other problem with my real name is that it is the same name as my dad. So searching for me will also come up with stuff for him. This is a pain. hehe.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do? What do most designers do? I was thinking once I get the domain name for my portfolio I could do something like "portfoliositenametom" with my first name "tom" after the site name. That doesn't seem so bad if the domain name is pretty short.
What does everyone think? Anyone else had this problem? On my forums I go by the name lsatblu and if I ever want to put my forums in my portfolio or just on the site it wouldn't make sense having the screen name lsatblu. My family does not understand even when I try to tell them that it is from a character I play. I know some people have really hard to pronounce names on most forums and that is cool but not what I am looking for.
Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.
I am thinking about changing my user name that I use for practically everything to something different. I'm finishing my second year of design school and would eventually like to put a portfolio up online. I'd like for people to be able to search my user name and find my site. Right now my current name is hard to pronounce and isn't an actual word.
It is the words last + blue mixed up a bunch. It is also the name of a character I play in an online game. Lsat Blu. I use this screen name for everything basically.
I made a flickr account with my real firstname.lastname and uploaded some art but my firstname.lastname does not connect to the name I use for my email and on every forum. I'd like to have it all be one thing. I could use my first name on forums but I don't think I want my last name everywhere. Especially since no one would be able to pronounce it. I could do my first initial.lastname but that would still look strange.
The other problem with my real name is that it is the same name as my dad. So searching for me will also come up with stuff for him. This is a pain. hehe.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do? What do most designers do? I was thinking once I get the domain name for my portfolio I could do something like "portfoliositenametom" with my first name "tom" after the site name. That doesn't seem so bad if the domain name is pretty short.
What does everyone think? Anyone else had this problem? On my forums I go by the name lsatblu and if I ever want to put my forums in my portfolio or just on the site it wouldn't make sense having the screen name lsatblu. My family does not understand even when I try to tell them that it is from a character I play. I know some people have really hard to pronounce names on most forums and that is cool but not what I am looking for.
Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.

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