In case you missed the amazing lights of the fast-burning web-fire, Elliot Jay Stocks did it.
What did he do? He tweeted this (drum roll please) . . .
"Honestly, I'm shocked that in 2010 I'm still coming across 'web designers' who can't code their own designs. No excuse."
Phew, did he light that match?
He explains beyond the tweet, that in his opinion, all web designers should know html and css. (He did not mean to say that all web designers should know php, javascript, etc.)
My question(s): Is there no room in the web design world for pure art? Have we become so "context oriented" that we won't allow artists to push us beyond where we are now? Isn't it an advantage having someone who doesn't know all of the limitations of web coding, imagine more? How do we go beyond the proverbial box?
IMHO, designers/artists know just as much as coders - on the other half of the world. But they don't expect, although maybe they should, that coders and software designers know what they know?
Mostly, I just love playing the other side of the argument and having a bit of fun with this! See Elliot's trench digging on his site: http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/web-designers-who-cant-code/.
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