Blog About Web Design
I love to tinker with my website in an attempt to make it the best it can be. For me, if I visit a site that is visually non pleasing I don’t usually go back. I like a clean layout with a few graphics that really stand out. As much as I like to play around with my own layouts I am in no way a graphic designer.
First off I have no formal education on the subject. Secondly, I always manage to find someone who is better than I am, knows more than I am, and thought of the idea first. For those very reasons I hesitate to call myself anything but an amateur playing around with a hobby. Unfortunately just about every other site I venture onto has someone claiming to be a designer and often offering services for monetary compensation to others.
This bugs me and I’m not alone. Taking a look at <a href=”http://blog.websitetodos.com/2007/09/18/web-design/all-your-skillsets-are-belong-to-us/”>All Your Skillsets Are Belong To Us?</a> the general feeling from the author is that web design is in no way graphic design. In fact the entire blog is geared toward the peculiar, vocal, and most over-represented things on the web.
For now I’m afraid we’ll have to deal with a new crop of self proclaimed graphic artists and designers every time a teenager gets a computer and makes a website. The only thing that keeps me from telling them how truly stupid they look is coming across a fresh looking site where the designer actually knows the ins and outs of what they are doing.
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