Comments on: The value of front-end web development

By: mark rushworth

mark rushworth — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:19:57 +0000

I’m my experience I spend 2ish days doing some SEO strategy and UI design, hand it over to developers who take an eternity to do something that i know is simple they then hand it back to me with a totally broken design using non semantic content i go back and further for the next few months and finally something not so close gets published :(

Glad I’m not in agency work any more ;)

By: phil

phil — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:30:52 +0000

Peter, this is very often the case.

Especially in big web agencies there will be a design team, a front-end team, a back-end team, an SEO team, etc.

It’s my opinion that a web designer who does not know HTML/CSS, is usually not a great designer and thus are paid less and a front-end coder who doesn’t either design nor program (at all) isn’t that great either.

Unfortunately, it’s still the case where people don’t have a good enough mixture of all these skills.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:26:27 +0000

Is it the case that someone would be employed solely as a front-end web developer?

While I would consider HTML CSS and Javascript coding to be development rather than design, if someone’s not doing the actual designing and they’re not doing any server side developing are you not splitting 2 salaries (designer/ developer) between 3 people (desinger/ frontend/ backend developer)?

I’m asking, not arguing. I’m new to all this and just trying to understand the different roles in website design and development.

As i understand it, and as you said at the end of your artice, most developers will have a combination of these skills.