The biggest problem with this is the apparently large number of designers out there that design for the web but have no idea how web pages work. It's not just t

The biggest problem with this is the apparently large number of designers out there that design for the web but have no idea how web pages work. It's not just that they don't know HTML or CSS coding, but that they don't how it works in the browser. I've had numerous discussions with designers of why their pretty design is simply not workable on a web page, not including the fact of the rendering differences between browsers. They expect pixel perfect matching of the mockup and almost always fail to understand why this is incredibly difficult to do. Plus the fact it's a wasteful exercise to begin with. The visitors are not going to care that the last sentence in the third paragraph breaks differently between IE, Firefox, and the mockup. Forget about trying to explain how a responsive site works and that, yes indeed, they need to design several versions of the same page as the layout will change as the media queries kick in. The main reason for doing so is to prevent surprises when they look at the site on their phones. But since they don't understand how it works they can't design for it anyway. I've always felt, based on job interviews with prospective designers, that the schools train backwards. They start with design concepts and at some point they introduce web design almost as an afterthought that barely touches coding. If a student wants to be a web designer they should learn how to code HTML and CSS before getting heavy into design. That way they know what they're designing for.