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Posted by Ikke on 12/04/06 22:15
mbstevens <NOXwebmasterx@xmbstevensx.com> wrote in
news:pan.2006.12.04.06.09.39.372897@xmbstevensx.com:
> On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:01:20 +0000, Ikke wrote:
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>> At my previous workplace, the designers always started out in
>> Photoshop, creating the site until all the details were finished,
>> after which they handed the result to the developers.
>
> They had people who knew the most about web design implementing the
> designs of people who knew the least.
I'm afraid I have to disagree on this one - please read on to see why.
> The photoshop design was a picture. A web page may appear to be a
> picture on one browser and display. However, it will actually be
> viewed on many browsers, and different displays, under many visitor
> preferences; so it is not, in fact, one picture at all. A good web
> page is adaptive, the design of a picture is not. The program must be
> able to convey the information of the page in many different
> environments, from hand-held devices and text browsers to huge
> wide-screen monster displays.
You are correct in stating that a web page is something entirely
different from a picture, given the variety of screens, browsers,
settings and even the devices itself that connect to the internet.
But where I work, taking all that into consideration is the task of the
developer. A designer creates a picture of what the site *should* look
like, to present to a customer in order to show him what the final result
will look like.
Making sure that the design can actually be viewed by any and all is our
task. Designers do not write html, nor do they write css, all that is the
developers task.
The entire process starts as a picture, but the end result is far from a
picture, allthough it looks like the original picture.
Thanks,
Ikke
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