Where to begin…
There are two types of people that “create” websites. Developers and Designers. AND if you actually go out on to the job boards and look for jobs related to Web Design, you will most certainly find both words, developers and designers, listed as the title of the job. HOWEVER, I have come to find out that almost 98% of businesses/companies out there do not see a difference in these two words, and for the small percentage that do they fall into two more classes. One percent thinks that the two jobs can be done by ONE person, the developing and the designing. Then you have the other one percent that realize a designer is a designer. Plain and simple.
So what happens when you have a developer make a site? What happens when you have a developer/designer make a site? And, what happens when you have a designer make a site? One thing will happen with all three, some type of element or image will be created and posted out to a URL. However, the content will be completely different dependent on who developed/designed it.
Lets go with the first person, the developer. Ah yes the developer, he crafts code in his sleep, he eats javascript for breakfast, drinks a nice action-script for lunch, and whips up some tasty PHP or even some XML scripting if he is really feeling up for it that night for supper. Wow what a great website… WRONG! His/her website is BORING its all about the math and not about the aesthetic. Screw the looks its all about functionality. Man do his forms look awesome. Yippee.
Our second person is of course the ideal candidate for companies. The killer combination of developer/designer is the two for one trade that all companies hope to attain to keep not only their salary output down, but also a way to keep from creative boundaries being pushed for their content. That’s right folks this “artist” can not only code, but he/she can also whip up some nice flash animation for you, layout some sweet CSS, in the end making those fonts on your site look so AWESOME that you will want to gouge out your eyeballs in hopes of never exposing them to such AWESOMENESS again.
Last but not least, you have your web designer in the truest sense… designer. They use the split or design only interface in Dreamweaver, they think of what cool 2d cartoons they could create on the stage in Flash, and what a sweet looking interface they could imagine within the confines of Fireworks. Oh yummy indeed. Dream a little dream. These people also wish they could be like those people up above, but they can’t. There is the left side and the right side. Ever here someone say middle? Nope that’s a negativo. Unfortunately for me, I’m lumped in with the last of the three.
I’ve been working on “A” website for like seven years. It’s bad, I mean really bad. First it was going to be all Flash and 3D-like and it would have cool swooping menus coming in and going out and flipping around. Oh man it was going to be, wait for it…. Legendary; but alas, I suck at developing and therefore Adobe realized that I sucked and started to create more automated things like encoding video for me, and making it easier for me to do layouts instead of having to learn CSS in and out. Do I know CSS? Well, I understand the preliminary structure of it yes. But do I know the code? Nope. But I do alright with a little backward engineering.
You’re probably wondering by now what the hell this is all about, so I will tell you…
I have finally created a website I am truly happy with and you can check it out here.
This site contains most of the art that I have created over the last 10 years. Unfortunately for you, the viewer, MOST of it is old. Only a few pieces that encompass the site are new, but that is soon to change. In the coming weeks and months, I will start to post more new art; AND I will post the redo art that I mentioned in the previous blog (back to the drawing board).
So, go check out all my old art and really sad animation work from college, and be sure to check out some of the new awesome stuff on my Works in Progress page and Concept Art page.
