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Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/19/05 18:48
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:33:45 GMT, Tony Cooper
<tony_cooper213@earthlink.net> wrote:
>If I was in the market to purchase website design, I can't imagine
>hiring a designer that would argue with me about the content,
So who are you hiring here? A designer, a coder or a consultant?
A coder does what you tell them (they've been largely extinct since the
'80s).
A designer makes a design that meets some outline brief. You can change
the brief, but you shouldn't pick holes in a design that meets the brief
- pick a designer you can work with and let them do their job.
A consultant is someone you go to with the brief "Design me a site for
my new TV cartoon tie-in". They'll tell you to make Flash optional and
lightweight on the homepage and main nav, use it entirely to implement
those nice interactive games, and to avoid it completely on the shopping
pages where parent is pestered to buy the tie-in toys. You are engaging
this person because they know what they're doing, in a field where you
don't. You either didn't need them, or you should be listening to them -
don't spend money just to ignore what they tell you.
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