This has been putting me off lately. I have to let it out.
If you are a coder, have you ever met a “designer” (or at least that’s what he calls himself) that wants you to code something as complicated as what China’s planning against the US but calls it “a piece of cake”?
“Designer”: “Hey you are a coder right? Code this magnificent design that I made. Here’s a penny for your labour work. I want it all in strict xhtml/css and it’ll have to pass through every freaking validator on the web, even if the validator is dated back in 1956. I want the total file size of the page to be less than 1k (even though the design has 38 gradients). Oh yeah, before I forget, I need it in the next 5 minutes.”
What is your problem!? First you make an absolutely horribly ugly design that you think is all that, then you want a coded page to look EXACTLY like that with so many restrictions and such a tiny budget. Then what’s worse is afterwards you want to make so many changes that it deviates from the original design so much I should be charging it as a second project.
GOD. To all designers in the world who can’t code:
[size=7]Learn to code![/size].
Share a bit of sympathy for us hardcore coders. You have no idea how difficult it is to transform a design from someone who can’t code into an actual html page. Seriously. You make all these “cool” gradients and wirly things that serve absolutely no purpose but to amuse yourself when you see the coder suffer. Code, and you will design better.
