Tag Archives: development

37 signals wrote this week ‘Web designers should do their own HTML / CSS’. This post basically follows thinking I’ve had for a long time where by you shouldn’t call yourself a web designer if you can not code HTML/ CSS. As expected there are some pretty strong for and against opinions in the comments. In the past I’ve been fairly vocal myself about my opinion on this and also experienced in my working life the frustration of making up a design from someone who doesn’t understand the web as a medium or HTML / CSS.

Considering a lot of the work I do is taking my design and crafting it into code, I thought I would write a mini tutorial on how I go through this process. I’m sure my process is fairly similar to mosts after all there are only a limited number of things you can do differently to get the result, but I thought it may be a good way to bring insight into both my working process and be also of interest to someone who may not have done it before.

Praise and working paradox

It’s a bit of a paradox that things that work well we never notice in life. You’d think the things that ‘just worked’ would be hailed as wonderful and supreme, yet as human’s we have this nasty habit of ignoring the silent working. Think about the last time you weren’t complacent about something that worked all the time and noted that it was doing a great job? More often than not we are focused on the things that don’t work. The things that claim to do one thing on the tin and fail to live up to anything apart from much ranting.