[thelist] Are Web designers a dying breed?

[Palyne Gaenir]

Maybe working darn near 24/7 for about 15 years now is making me 
burned out? This topic (and article ref'd below) is part of why I am 
really starting to lose interest in the very thing (web devel) that 
has driven my interest and career for the last five years now.  (Not 
counting that I still hate javascript. ;-))

I mean DAMN it all, I confess!  I'm guilty!  I don't WANT my web 
sites to look like Amazon or Yahoo, so there! I don't WANT links on a 
nice teal-green site to be blue and purple and red!  I don't WANT my 
text to sprawl out all over the page because 'readers' don't like 
tables (so why the bleep can't they just make a NEW code that is NOT 
a 'table' but works exactly like one for this purpose??). 

And I don't want to hear another webpatriot explaining why, if only 
everything looks the same and works the same and IS the same, this 
should not be depressing for developers who actually joined the field 
to be just a little bit (gasp) creative now and then.  The simple 
list of what is truly left to decide/design once all the suggestions 
about dismissing most unique design, making sites fully accessible, 
etc. is incorporated amounts to little more than "provide interesting 
content" -- which is NOT a developer's job.  So if that's the only 
area left for creativity on the web, then maybe it's time to get 
another job.  (I probably just need more sleep....)

I'm a closet optimist.  I think as long as humans are involved there 
is always going to be some unexpected doorway for creativity to spark 
through.  Just when all the control freaks get the chaos together, 
some new chaos will break out around us.  Hopefully, I'll be in the 
right place to find it, and it won't require complex javascript. ;-)
  
Palyne

On 24 Jul 2000, at 17:34, javier wrote:
> Alertbox is discussing the same subject this week...
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000723.html