Comments on: Should web designers build their own pages? http://zomigi.com/blog/should-web-designers-build-their-own-pages/ The professional blog of Zoe Mickley Gillenwater Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:18:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: zomigi.com » More debate on designers writing HTML and CSS http://zomigi.com/blog/should-web-designers-build-their-own-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-18194 zomigi.com » More debate on designers writing HTML and CSS Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:21:46 +0000 http://zomigi.com/?p=16#comment-18194 [...] my opinion is still the same as it was when I wrote Should web designers build their own pages? back in June 2008. Check that article out for my full opinion—including my very own architect [...] [...] my opinion is still the same as it was when I wrote Should web designers build their own pages? back in June 2008. Check that article out for my full opinion—including my very own architect [...]

]]> By: Experienced Freelance Architect http://zomigi.com/blog/should-web-designers-build-their-own-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Experienced Freelance Architect Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:24:16 +0000 http://zomigi.com/?p=16#comment-29 Great post Great post

]]> By: Ingo Chao http://zomigi.com/blog/should-web-designers-build-their-own-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Ingo Chao Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:53:21 +0000 http://zomigi.com/?p=16#comment-23 "knowing how to build things in HTML/CSS limits your creativity" (M. Boulton). The topos of a free artist that can only be creative without any limitations is romantic, but not true. Some of the best paintings in the history of art were made by artists under circumstances that were by far less ideal. How can you even imagine a sculpture without knowing the material, your tools and casting mold? In fact only knowing the limitations builds the frame where creativity can exist in. Visual designers that are unaware of the constraints that CSS has are neither free nor creative, they are simply out of touch. This collides with the work flow of the web guys who have to actually implement it. “knowing how to build things in HTML/CSS limits your creativity” (M. Boulton).

The topos of a free artist that can only be creative without any limitations is romantic, but not true. Some of the best paintings in the history of art were made by artists under circumstances that were by far less ideal. How can you even imagine a sculpture without knowing the material, your tools and casting mold? In fact only knowing the limitations builds the frame where creativity can exist in. Visual designers that are unaware of the constraints that CSS has are neither free nor creative, they are simply out of touch. This collides with the work flow of the web guys who have to actually implement it.

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