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> Expensive "web programmers" shouldn't be needed for web design, just as "print programmers" aren't needed for print design. You don't need web programmers fo

> Expensive "web programmers" shouldn't be needed for web design, just as "print programmers" aren't needed for print design. You don't need web programmers for web design. You can export from a WISYWIG to HTML, or design a big ol' GIF and post it on Wordpress. Lots of restaurants do that sort of thing. But you probably want something that interacts with the user, changes layouts based on screen size, provides information to disabled users, validates and submits information, allows commenting and moderation of comments, etc. Eg, a program. And you do need programmers for that.

cousin_it 11y ago
> changes layouts based on screen size Why can't the designer specify that? Because the current tools suck for designers (i.e. they were made for programmers). > provides information to disabled users Ditto. > allows commenting and moderation of comments There should be ready made solutions for that, usable by non-programmers. If you wanna buy a toaster, you don't go "oh, it's an Electrical Device and we need an Electrical Engineer". A toaster is complicated inside, but it was made with good engineering so users don't have to care. The web is not like that. The needs of most websites are well understood by now, but somehow we still need programmers to make layouts and comment systems. My only explanation is that the whole system of HTTP/HTML/CSS/JS is poorly designed, in a way that's very hard to fix. Name me one other medium where positioning elements on the screen/page/whatever isn't a completely solved problem. Show me a single game developer who just can't seem to get the crosshair centered vertically on the screen.