Comments on: Web Designers and Typography

By: Jacqui Robinson

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:27:44 +0000

Hi Brett,
This is probably out of your area, but need help to find someone who can do me a mindblowing site on my space. I want it to be out of this world & really classy, can you help advise who I can use

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By: web designer

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:19:58 +0000

thats interesting Brett.

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By: Brett

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 05:00:44 +0000

Yes, Web Designers aren’t Programmers. That’s why we have Web Developers.

This is what the problem is:

Because most people who call themselves “Web Designers” don’t have the skills to collaborate well with Web Developers on the total design (the scale of Asthetics vs Function), they create crappy designs that are missing half of what should be there, leaving the “Programmers” to do their “Programmer Art”, creating a half-asthetically designed, non-user-friendly application.

Most of the Web Designers in our industry should be called “Web Asthetics Designers”.

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I recently discovered a webcomic called OK/Cancel, which portrays the life of a Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) worker and the problems he faces day to day. I tell you, this is what we needed — an HCI Dilbert.

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By: rumpel

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:58:10 +0000

I just wanted to tell you that web designers are not programmers.
Although I think you do know that, I coudn’t resist posting this comment.

While a designer uses script languages, a programmer does it by using programming languages like C and so on.

But I’m pretty sure there is a compiler for PHP out there… but people who designs web pages by using HTML, XML, Java script or even PHP are definitively no programmers.

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By: jeffry

Sat, 18 Jun 2005 03:02:51 +0000

the functionality and presentation depend on the topic of one website and those are included in web developing. a web developer knows and develops what the importance of one website is, whilst a web designer only creates the design, which has to be important and specific according to the web developer’s view.

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By: Kodiak

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:54:14 +0000

Yes its all about communication (for once). And its imperative that the dev and designer work closely over the whole width of the design of the main functions and parts of the site.

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By: Joseph Lindsay

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:40:34 +0000

I think it’s changing a lot as more as the whole ‘web design’ thing matures as a craft. And it is a craft, as much as art or science. Coming to the web from a technical background does leave a lot of developers short on the design side, like me. But I think that if you have a good visual designer to work with it can be a lot better. You do have to work with them though: it can’t just be designers cutting a template and throwing it over the fence to the web team. The web developers need to be involved from the start.

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