Comments on: Manifesto of a Web Producer

By: Space Ninja » Blog Archive » Pop Art is Hiring

Space Ninja » Blog Archive » Pop Art is Hiring — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:20:12 +0000

[...] allow me to wax poetic about the front-end developer position for a moment. If you’ve read my manifesto of a web producer, then you know that I feel that production work is a separate specialization from design and [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 02:02:43 +0000

Deal. :)

By: urn

urn — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:07:31 +0000

Scott, you make some really good points about the separation of the different aspects of web site creation/maintainence.

Ideally, each aspect should have its own person, it’s own expert who is focused just on that portion of the process.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that I have to do each aspect. As a one-man “web development division” I realize there are parts of the process I enjoy, and parts I dread. And I think the design is the part I dread, or at least, feel the weakest in. The production is the easiest for me, but I don’t hold up to the standards as well as you do. The programming is the most challenging, and possibly the most fun, as it’s a chance (a better chance than the design, even) for me to be creative.

So, let’s find a designer, and start our own web development company. :)

By: Max

Max — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:27:02 +0000

I used to be really enthusiastic about the production aspect of wed development. But then it really started to bother me that standards only get a design so far. It’s possible to code a page perfectly to the specification of the w3c and have it not display correctly on any browser without a litany of hacks. Same goes for ECMAscript.

For that reason I respect web producers immensely, while I avoid it as much as possible myself. A design renders similarly in the viewers mind when they see it and PHP has one consistent interpretter.