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When programmers design web sites (comic)

Posted 15 years ago

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Steve Hanov makes a living working on Rhymebrain.com, rapt.ink, www.websequencediagrams.com, and Zwibbler.com. He lives in Waterloo, Canada.

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jdk

two years ago

To be honest, this is better than approximately 100% of current websites designed by web people. (Except, of course, that it uses jquery, couchdb, a facebook connection, cloud nonsense, and css. I forgot cloud bs existed 13 years ago...)

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itests

four years ago

hi, this is test comment.

i just want to test the ui here.

very cool.

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rypaci

ten years ago

I seriously appreciate your information.

this post is helpful. thanks for this idea..

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khagesh

13 years ago

hahaha..so true :)

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Griffin Boyce

14 years ago

I'm laughing and yet I've totally done the same thing! xD

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PaulG

14 years ago

Class.. Bet the first graphics are w3c logos.

Reminds me of what was pronounced the top uk gov website, least errors, best validation, usability etc.

Winner: An ambulance station in Scotland consisting of a single webpage containing just an email address and a tel no.

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John From

14 years ago

Yeah, now let's see a Web site made entirely by artists: No database backend (what's a database? How do you make one in Photoshop?), no Javascript. Nothing but HTML and CSS with lots of Flash, autogenerated by Photoshop and/or Dreamweaver.

The top Web site in the world, Google, is written entirely by programmers, and it shows: The site actually does something.

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RobHurt

15 years ago

Awesome :)

Not sure why so many people are taking offence to this - it's all in good spirit..

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Lucks

15 years ago

Damn it, is my life, haha

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James

15 years ago

So wait, programmers can't be designers or vice-versa?

Who created *that* totally artificial boundary?

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Paul \"The Pageman\" Pajo

15 years ago

nice. I saw Erlang and CouchDB there somewhere ...

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Karen Ramel

15 years ago

Hah! Does it mean I'm a geek if I know mostly what he's talking about and started to think: coooool?

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Jade

15 years ago

Ha, I'm the complete opposite, I have things I want to do with my sites with no idea how to get them there.

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ale

15 years ago

gg, programmers still > you all

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spider man

15 years ago

i really did like the above,it was lame.

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Accilies

15 years ago

*ahem*

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Evan

15 years ago

Wow this is cliche. The "programmer" in the comic is just a n00b.

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bill

15 years ago

well i guess it just shows that you have to focus on one or the other. It takes forever to incorporate both. I guess design rules as long as there is some functionality to hold it up.

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Jonathan

15 years ago

No need for real UI or visual design, just slap "beta" on it and it's ok.

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Y2A

15 years ago

Hahaha.. super!

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Stefan Zdzislaw Camilleri

15 years ago

Hehe, so true! Now we need one for when a dev actually tries to design a UI :)

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mandle

15 years ago

The designer in me is smiling :)

The developer in me is smiling :)

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furkan tunalÄ±

15 years ago

that's me =)

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David Lender

15 years ago

Image is broken. :-(

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Shaymaa

15 years ago

very true!!! so glad i am not alone here. but i do appreciate UI, that's why i save it for last. :p

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Jason

15 years ago

Oh, so true!

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Martin Bean

15 years ago

I'm a developer and I look NOTHING like that...

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Himanshu Ranavat

15 years ago

On a serious note, thats the beauty of MVC :)

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15 years ago

Heh.. so glad to know I'm not alone.

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Sid

15 years ago

Truth.

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Paul

15 years ago

Subtext: The naive programmer is trying to do something original that they have some misguided belief will ultimately improve the world. For this they are to be ridiculed.

Message: Be a 'creative' designer, buy an Apple, work for a funky marketing agency and build gloriously bland websites by cutting and pasting cliched stock images into photoshop. It's so much cooler and rebellious to help corporations monetize consumers.

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Queue

15 years ago

That really IS the best website ever

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BradB

15 years ago

I use jquery/flash to design blank screens all the time. Works great on server side.

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Deltaray

15 years ago

There needs to be another comic that is called "when non-programmers create web sites" that shows a hipster expressing a clueless face when their site gets hacked because they didn't secure it properly. And also not understanding why their website can't keep up with demand as it grows because they didn't make it scalable.

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Bryan

15 years ago

This was amazingly astute.

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Bill Gates

15 years ago

awesome comic!

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15 years ago

programming without a UI????? for preview at least? dumb i guess

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shawn

15 years ago

wow what a completely original joke

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nietzsche

15 years ago

i've learned that i have no tech friends by describing developments like that

i really do dislike UIs

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icandothat

15 years ago

hey mark, wanna trade notes on frameworks? I'll show you mine if you show me yours. email me at my name at gmail

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Mark

15 years ago

haha I just did that all last week. I developed a framework to easily create ui components. But the UI Components I made were pretty weak.

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Edwar

15 years ago

I got it.

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15 years ago

I think I'm being spied on.

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Amey

15 years ago

True. So true.

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