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> webdesign It's web development you're referring to.

• jiggy2011 13y ago
  Without wishing to descend too much into semantics the accepted definitions (at least within the industry) seem to be that "design" is basically Graphics/Layout (so includes HTML/CSS) and development is programming (either client or server side).
  • matthewmacleod 13y ago
    I don't agree. Design is design, development is split into front- and back-end specialisations. Some developers straddle both, but there are few people who are both (good) designers and developers. I don't know of anybody within the industry who would refer to a front-end developer as a "designer."
    • jiggy2011 13y ago
      It depends if you are programming or simply describing page layout. Front end development could also include things like Javascript. There are plenty of designers who are not Javascript programmers but who can use CSS etc.
  • simonw 13y ago
    HTML and CSS are programming.
    • jiggy2011 13y ago
      You could probably argue that in a technical sense but it's a person who works with HTML/CSS but not say JS etc would probably be considered a designer more than a programmer.
      • simonw 13y ago
        I've worked at a bunch of different companies (Yahoo!, The Guardian, various smaller companies) and in all of them the "designers" were the people who did the visual design using Photoshop and Illustrator - those people rarely if ever wrote HTML and CSS, and almost never to production level standards. The people writing production-ready HTML and CSS were known as "web developers" or "client-side/front-end engineers".