“Your design skills are fine but do you know JavaScript?”
Posted by Sagnik | Filed under Website Designing
I read a similar sort of post on some blog, I don’t exactly remember where. If anybody comes across the original please do let me know. I just wrote my version of the original.
Here it goes…..
“Your design skills are fine but do you know JavaScript?”
Like the Client-side and Server-side coding, the IT/Web community is basically divided in two categories, Designers & Developers.
The former often deals with the Client-side things like Web design, Fonts, Color with the Usability aspects. Now-a-days the efficient one also poses a working knowledge of HTML & CSS. Whereas the Developers take care of the Server-side things like .NET, PHP, C# etc.
One of the major Client-side things what we’re using for the past 6-7 years is JavaScript. Since Designers are handling the client-side part, now-a-days they are expected to solve the mysteries of JavaScript. But the question is “Whether it’s too much to ask from a Designer?”
I think most of the guys from IT will agree that JavaScript is a typical programming languages just like C#, .NET, Java. So those should be kept in the lap of the Developers. Even if the Developers don’t know the language all they have to do is learn the syntax, which they do whenever they learn any different language.
The main message is a clear line should be drawn to separate out the tasks of the Designer & a Developer.
I don’t think anybody asks a .NET developer that “Whether he can design a website?”
Although I know some designers & developers who are both good at coding & designing & vice versa, but this breed is very rare & thus sought after.
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