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"What was it that made you ... (1)"

... want to get into Web Designing???

For me, it was the idea that you became a millionare by making a Web Site :o)

Tyla wrote:
> Not many clients uderstand the difference either!

Heh. Tell me about it, they want flashy 3D diagrams of products and stuff and full screen FMV, (oh, and BLINKING text) then when you hint that it might cost a lot and not many people would wait to download that kind of thing, they say something like :-

"Well [insert name of Managing Directors' son in here] did a web site on [insert lastest fad in here] and he did something like that, and he is only 8 years old!"

Yeah. Right. It's all BTs' fault for running that ad where the kid builds a web site with a video of the bloody universe in it... so realistic eh?

funkygamer wrote:
> The best web sites only come about when there is a union of design and technical excellence - but not many people want to pay the cost for sites like that.

Not many clients uderstand the difference either!

I'm with Tyla on this, I did mention "design and build" :)

Yes, 9 times out of 10 designers get their knackers kicked if something doesn't work, but 10 times out of 10, the designers take the credit for it once it does work, dammit.

The best web sites only come about when there is a union of design and technical excellence - but not many people want to pay the cost for sites like that.

But to deliver it you still have to design the GUI and this is the "experience" end for the user... Could you imaging if we suddenly went back to text only sites?

Do not underestimate the power of the designer... We don't just make things look pretty, we have to understand how everything works, how users think and interact, how to present the data you backenders send to the front and still retain the "experience" for the user...

We are responsible for the branding, the imagery and the promotion of the product you are trying to sell or promote

Though oddly enough, we are the ones who get are knackers kicked if things go wrong when 9 out of 10 times it's a backend faliure!!

The back end it important, and without it, content would not exist, but the user comes for an "experience" and it's down to mere designers like myself to give them that...

I know. When you build and code your creation and watch it grow and develop over time, it's create. Design's boring, because it's static. With coding you have a chance to make something BIG!

For me, being in "web design" (tho my official title is "Developer") means getting to play with lots of different aspects of computing, all it once.

Lets face it, web heads get to write scripts, play with databases, mess around with servers, and that is before the site that you helped design and build gets seen by hundred of thousands of people the world over.

How cool is a job like that?

That's a good point. I got paid yesterday and picked up another job, but apart from that I haven't been paid in months.

i did to have a well known web page

and for money

There is NO money in it anymore... I do it for the lack of limitations and the ability pushing the boundaries beyond conventional preint and graphic design.

Though I would like to find a ob where I could say I was doing it for the money!

Money, and the challenge. Mostly the money though :)