hey kirupians… intresting one this and not sure if my post will get moved - i am in need of an ego massage and wondered if anyone fancied a game of spot the difference…
i was approached to design & build a site (seperate quotes) through a design company for one of their clients - design was approved by client with minor tweaks and the design company decided they would be happier to build themselves and i quote them…
This is a poor job but I disagree with your view of programmers, Jamie.
A good coder will get a site to look exactly as the designer intended. The two should have some knowledge and understanding of each other’s roles but a designer should design and a coder should code. Doing both often leads to compromises in the design to facilitate coding.
I think we’re arguing the same point here Paddy. I agree, a *good coder will get a site to look exactly as the photoshop mock up, and thats where my point about coding a website to look like the mock up is an art in of itself ties in – There are some amazing programmers out there, but in my overall travels through the internet world, I have seldom been impressed by a full-fledged programmer, who has been given a mock up and told to code it. In fact, my entire job at work is to take what the programmers have developed, and to fix their HTML and bring the overall design of the application up to snuff.
I know, that is an obscenely generalized point of view, but its for this exact reason I taught myself HTML and CSS all those years ago.
Paddy is right. I use a bipolar effect when it comes to designing and coding. I think about design first then code. If I code frist, my design gets compromised.
It doesn’t even look like that hard of a site to code.
Ouch, man. That is a pretty ghastly rendering of a decent mockup.
(passes whole box of cookies to thedaveyb)
This was not that hard to not screw up…
“design” company?
