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Written by:
Dylan Barber
4/27/2009 9:33 PM
I am a developer not a designer! I think most of the people I talk to on a regular basis say this at least once a week. Most developers, okay the ones I hang out with, don't have a lot of artistic ability. I don’t mean they aren't creative, I mean how else can programmers deal with visualizing all the variables and interactions of data, text and logic. What I mean is, hand them Photoshop and you will not get one useable graphic from them much less a straight line.
Knowing this I went looking for tutorials to make myself a better designer. Know I know quite a bit about CSS and something about how it works but trying to develop a skin for DNN with CSS is something of a mystery. Now, with this tutorial http://www.subcide.com/tutorials/csslayout/, I feel a little better about trying to get going on a design. Still can’t draw a straight line but when I learn how to do that I’ll be able to show it with a better page design.
2 comment(s) so far...
Re: Designing for developers
Hi Dylan, don't worry: it's the old fight between guys that handle "how-it-works" and the other ones who handle "how-it-looks-like". It's the same for us engineers against architects. I finally gave up with it, and accepted that I will never be able to make a beautyful house, but rather an efficient one. On the other hand, I will not expect an architect to design a house that can stand up correctly.
By Dario Rossa on
4/28/2009 7:51 AM
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Re: Designing for developers
Never thought of it that way - of course on the web it looks like us developers are supposed to have some design sense.
By Dylan Barber on
4/28/2009 7:52 AM
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