On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Ajai Khattri<a...@bitblit.net> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Chris Snyder wrote: > >> Yes, designers should have HTML experience. But the best designers >> think visually, and need to have the freedom to do that. > > The only problem is when a designer comes up with a design that can't be > expressed in HTML or doesn't work easily with your coding framework of > choice. That's what I mean when I say the HTML knowledge should inform the > design process too.
Exactly. When a designer takes on web work they have to learn the limitations of the medium: web fonts for body text, no custom form controls, no flowed text. I'm happy to educate anyone I'm working with about what is a bad idea, what is really expensive, and what is impossible. It's not that bad, but you DO have to ask to review designs before they are sent to the client. And to the extent that we can expect people to have standards-compliant browsers with javascript, very few designs are actually impossible in HTML. Expensive to develop, perhaps, but not impossible. _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
