On 24 Apr 2009, at 07:39, Richard Dalton wrote:
Who codes your production quality HTML/CSS/Javascript? Where in the organization do they sit and do they do more than just HTML/CSS/Javascript (ie, Java, mid-tier, etc)? I'm trying to gauge how closely connected to the Design resources they are, are they more aligned to Design or more to Development?
Right now where I work we have a separate front-end guy who does the detail work of taking full graphical mock ups of archetypal pages to detail CSS/XHTML/JavaScript. We've a few non-developers who are okay taking existing XHTML templates and adding content. We've a few developers who are fine adding functionality/interaction to static XHTML/CSS work - and can sort CSS/XHTML issues given sufficient time.
So I guess they're very much in the middle if you are going to draw a line between design and development.
Other places I've worked have had the designer doing all the XHTML/CSS - but not any coding. Others where the designer does a little bit of mocking of the UI with Javascript that needs to be cleaned up.
Generally I've found that designers who _can_ do the CSS/XHTML work are more effective - even if they don't do the actual work.
I worked with one guy who did some great work and had a rather interesting technique. He jumped straight from fairly detailed sketches to XHTML/CSS. He obviously used Photoshop et al to produce graphical assets - but he never did a "full page" with them - just fragments needed for the XHTML/CSS page he was working on. His argument was basically that the constraints of the medium helped him create.
Personally I don't think putting things on a line between design and development is useful - but that's just me :-)
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