On 26 Oct 98, Luana M. Howard wrote:
> My mistake. According to my boss, Web "developer" and
> Web "designer" are one and the same. The job we're looking to
> fill is actually for a designer. A matter of words perhaps, but I'm
> disappointed that the title Web developer was misinterpreted, and,
> I suspect, chosen based on the fact that it sounds more impressive
> than "designer."
Yes, I suppose "developer" is somewhat more chichi than "designer", but
the two words do have distinct meanings in the context of Web site
development, IMO.
Any of the major "developer" sites around the Web are oriented largely
towards the propellerhead set: the CGI programmers, dbase integrators,
sysadmins and other who are more concerned with the technical details of
operating servers and writing Web applications/scripts. Examples of such
sites are www.developer.com, developer.netscape.com and
www.webdeveloper.com.
"Designers", in my interpretation, are more concerned with the visual
appearance of a site, including its graphical elements, look-and-feel or
what have you. On this list I think we have a mix of both, "designers" and
"developers".
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