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James McGuire
3,272 PointsWeb Design I can be a programmer that understands design, but I don't have to be an "Artist", I'm a programmer?
Just as the question says. Love programming, HTML learned it years ago. Went back through it before entering CSS. My problem was that I'm not an Artist. I like and understand color and style. But I need to see others work and then I can make structure to it. So my problem is that when designing a site I can have, let others choose the design. I just need to build and program the elements? Can one specialize that much.
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David Bath
25,940 PointsThat is a narrow specialty, but there are some front-end development positions that specialize in markup and styling. There are UI/graphic designers that take care of the visual design and then the developer needs to implement it. Most front-end positions require more skills including JavaScript and associated libraries or frameworks, but I can tell you from experience that if you are very good with HTML and CSS (and preferably Sass) you might find a position along those lines.
Stephanie van Doleweerd
3,075 PointsI'm not sure I fully understand your question, but at several of our local creative agencies, they have the person who does the design, and then the coder's job is to turn the design into a site.
From experience I think it's better if you at least understand the basics of both - and graphic design elements can be taught - you don't have to be an artist by nature. Research 'graphic design principles' and you'll be on your way,
I have a degree in graphic design, but I'm a self-taught coder; it can easily go the other way.
Andreas Frost Nordstrøm-Hansen
2,443 PointsHTML is the core of the site. But to really make it look like something, thats where CSS comes in. Doing HTML is fine, but you need to be able to understand and do basic CSS yourself, otherwise doing websites is really hard, considering you dont have any style to it.
Sure you can add the core elements to the site, but alot of functionality comes from doing proper CSS and JAVASCRIPT at some points.