Are web designers actually coders?
OK … I’ll state now that I am not the best web designer, and my HTML/CSS is not as good as it could be.
The issue:
I happen to be in the vicinity of a person that believes that writing a web page in HTML and CSS is ‘coding’.
Now I write internet engines in PHP and it’s incredibly flexible in the way you get tasks done, i.e. I code!
………… but I don’t believe that adding markup to a document in a pre-defined way as per guidelines is ‘coding’.
Anyways, I said I’d write a blog post and a poll about it to see if anyone else agrees, disagreess ,or, actually gives two hoots.
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OK.
1 vote so far, a “Yes” – and you guessed it … it was voted by a Web Designer … the very same one that is sitting about 2 metres to my right.
Desperate huh?
This depends on your definition of ‘coder’
A designer using a wysiwyg tool is NOT a coder
A designer writing in HTML could be described as a coder as they ‘code’ the page so that it displays as required.
Someone ‘coding’ php could perhaps be better described as a ‘programmer’ as php is a simple programming language in its own right
So perhaps rather than the designer talking himself up, you may in fact be talking yourself down