[thelist] Are Web designers a dying breed?

John Snippe design at cybernautica.com
Thu Jul 20 11:57:58 CDT 2000


On 7/20/00,  regarding " RE: [thelist] Are Web designers a dying breed? ",
martin burns offered the following:


>Absolutely. You can't be good enough at everything in a fast paced global
>market (which it is).
>
>If I were putting together a site as an project manager (which is a niche
>btw), I might build a team containing (amongst others), Isaac (for the
>look), Adrian (for the HTML/usability), Rudy (for the db), Jeff & Bob(for
>getting the data out of the db and into the HTML), Dan (for running the
>server) and Wolf (for getting it all on Search Engines). I'd do the
>content & link to the marketing/CRM, and Marlene would get everything
>organised.

But this is where the contention starts to fall apart.  I suspect that we
are dealing with a continuum here.  On the one end are the
FrontPage/Template/ Do-it-in-Word-and-put-it-out-there sites.  Cheap, easy,
but lacking all over the place.  on the other end is your description:  an
entire team of specialists who are each able to totally nail one aspect of
a project.  Complex, integrated, cutting-edge, but killer expensive.  Ain't
nobody on that team gonna even so much as twitch if it is 'only' a 5K job,
right?  That's where I come in (with maybe a friend/cohort or two).  5K!?
You *know* I am gonna jump big for that.  Heck, you can practically own me
for 20K... I know, 'cause that is what I am on now.   So maybe there is
already a niche for me.  Not everyone wants, needs, or more importantly,
_can afford_ to blow cash a la RazorFish.




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