Comments on: Ding Dong the photoshop only web designer should be dead

By: deegeejay

deegeejay — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:19:18 +0000

(full disclosure: playing the devil’s advocate) I have a different take. 99% of what web designers do is so unnecessary it isn’t even funny. You might want to turn your critical faculties toward your own emerging industry. Spinning, gif flame skulls are still just spinning gif flame skulls even if they are “coded” in ruby on rails. Try explaining why every joe client needs a blog or cms? A huge waste of time and money worthy of the internet bubble days if you ask me. Until you start respecting communication, a good print designer will be able to beat you with a single well kerned splash page. Maybe you should all be forced to read some Edward Tufte before you are unleashed on unsuspecting clients?

Boom baby . . .

By: Rohan

Rohan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:59:06 +0000

If you cannot code perfect HTML, CSS and Javascript then you are not fit to call yourself a web designer, end of story. You are a student who is learning or needs to learn. We are professionals. It takes time, skill and dedication to master the disciplines you need in order to call yourself a web professional in any part of the field.

If you do graphic design, then great, you are a graphic designer. But without solid web technology experience under your belt, that is all you are.

By: Web Design Manager

Web Design Manager — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:58:40 +0000

Photoshop is good for pictures but not for the whole web site.

By: Web Design Bournemouth

Web Design Bournemouth — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:52:18 +0000

I agree with the vast majority of what you have written. Keep up the good work.

By: diseno-web-vizcaya

diseno-web-vizcaya — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:55:59 +0000

Photoshop is a good tool but you cannot do a whole website with photoshop.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:44:16 +0000

As someone who does web design in his spare time, I find it mind-boggling that people can learn how to be great at graphics but know next to nothing about the hard code and call themselves ‘web designers’. Maybe I am indeed an amateur who’s missing the point here, but isn’t functionality (code that actually *works*) and clarity more important than looking flashy? Do some pros actually think like that?!

I suppose CSS has separated the structure and appearance of code but I think the points you raise here are no less important than they used to be. If anything, it’s more important – as the web expands and connection speeds allow for increasingly graphic-rich pages with flash animations and whatnot, it must be tempting to make pretty, eye-catching pages with W3C valid HTML as an afterthought. Personally, I wouldn’t have known where to start when designing my own Wordpress theme unless I felt confident in knowing what those header, list and paragraph tags actually do!

Anyway, it’s an interesting blog you have here – I was looking for a design-centric site to add to my feedreader. (:

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:42:00 +0000

I think I have a different scope, I have posted my reply over here...

By: Should web designers do their own HTML/CSS? //SLEEKANDSEXY

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By: ideiadigital » Designer Web/Designer

ideiadigital » Designer Web/Designer — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:40:02 +0000

[...] No começo de junho, David Heinemeier Hansson, escreveu no Signal Vs. Noise, o blog da 37Signals, um excelente post defendendo a idéia de que o designer deve ser o responsável pela implementação dos layouts que faz. Durante alguns dias pensei em postar sobre isso, contando minhas experiências, como designer, como implementador e como designer+implementador+programador ou webfaztudo. Posterguei esse post até hoje, quando li um outro excelente texto no Diary of a Web Site, Ding Dong the photoshop only web designer should be dead. [...]

By: es_id

es_id — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:11:25 +0000

Most Web designers have no clue about design or how to innovate and push the usability of the web/app interfaces forward.Yes they can code a design but its a given that a website will be technically good. Great design is the only factor that seperates different websites and brands.A fantastic design is technically possible if you work with a great coder who know s there tools.