Comments on: Things You Won’t Hear About Successful Web Designers – Part I

By: admin

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:22:29 +0000

Hi Tim,
I can see your point. I think in the case, regarding the article, we assumed that web designers were programmers first, and designers second. But your point is well taken…I have worked with web designers that were much more comfortable in the design aspects rather than the actual coding.

By: SH

SH — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:25:21 +0000

Agreed! People skills are vital. The most important factor, in my opinion, is flexibility. If you find a way to design whatever the client wants, you also develop your own skill through challenge. Never stay satisfied with what you already know.

By: Tim Piele

Tim Piele — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:33:25 +0000

“Most aspiring web designers are very talented in coding.”

This is 100% untrue. I am a PHP/MySQL/jQuery developer and some of the most talented designers I work with couldn’t write a basic ‘Hello World’ script in PHP or JavaScript. Most are even mediocre at xHTML and CSS, and I hail from Seattle which is ripe with talented folks.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:00:16 +0000

Design (or content) is king or key – as you say.

By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:55:29 +0000

I agree that people skill are very important in web design, in fact the most important skill of all. If you can’t deal with people then it doesn’t matter how good your web design skills are – you’ll never get the chance to put them to use!