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when I started working in this field, there seemed to be a level of learning of your craft you had to do to consider yourself "competent" enough to then start charging clients money for your services.
These days I'm seeing more and more folk considering themselves a "web designer" and/or a "web developer" and then asking rudimentary, basic entry level questions.
I'm wondering if this is due to the abundance of "paint by numbers" site builder such as wix, or the high % of developers using the online equivalent of lego - wordpress. Both of which can create simple basic websites that even a monkey can manage to spit out.
It's certainly possible to utilise the interface for both of these and create an OK website without even having to dig into the html/css/js at all. Even easier to simply grab someone elses "template" change a few colours and text and say its your design. But does this make you a designer? certainly even harder to then claim to be a developer because you can implement a site on these platforms.
Are "designers who know code"/"developers who can program" going the way of the dinosaur these days? Is the criteria these days simply you know how to turn on your computer, know how to make pretty pictures in photoshop, know how to connect to the internet and "I know wordpress!"...
I know we are all learning all the time, and sometimes somethings that seem simple to someone is complex to another. But really, centering on a page? margins on the body? howto...[css1]? why not psd>html>tables? how to change text? I would think you would learn these things before getting paid clients, yes?
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when I started working in this field, there seemed to be a level of learning of your craft you had to do to consider yourself "competent" enough to then start charging clients money for your services.
These days I'm seeing more and more folk considering themselves a "web designer" and/or a "web developer" and then asking rudimentary, basic entry level questions.
I'm wondering if this is due to the abundance of "paint by numbers" site builder such as wix, or the high % of developers using the online equivalent of lego - wordpress. Both of which can create simple basic websites that even a monkey can manage to spit out.
It's certainly possible to utilise the interface for both of these and create an OK website without even having to dig into the html/css/js at all. Even easier to simply grab someone elses "template" change a few colours and text and say its your design. But does this make you a designer? certainly even harder to then claim to be a developer because you can implement a site on these platforms.
Are "designers who know code"/"developers who can program" going the way of the dinosaur these days? Is the criteria these days simply you know how to turn on your computer, know how to make pretty pictures in photoshop, know how to connect to the internet and "I know wordpress!"...
I know we are all learning all the time, and sometimes somethings that seem simple to someone is complex to another. But really, centering on a page? margins on the body? howto...[css1]? why not psd>html>tables? how to change text? I would think you would learn these things before getting paid clients, yes?
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