Stick to the templates!
Dec 12
I’ve been in some situations where I need to support a company doing the back end on some templates I produced. The problem is that those companies often have little knowledge of web standards, XHTML/CSS and such, and my templates….well they’re standard based.
Got me to think about how recognized is a web integrator in the industry. Most companies don’t seem to recognize this as a full time job, some of them sees it as a programmer job, others sees it as a designer job. In a company where your specialty is developing back end you sure don’t care much about the front end. But it IS important. The whole user experience depends on how the information is presented to the user, how the website reacts and how the site “feels”.
What’s the point of having a whole flow where you define wire frames, use cases, technical specs of a website and provide HTML templates on which all you have to do is plug your code when in the end it’s in big part dumped cause of “technical difficulties”. Having this knowledge in house can save you tons of work, time and money. Not only that, but the overall product will probably be a whole lot better.
Because you’re behind the scene, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care about what’s happening up front!
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