Re: Mountains to big to climb

I think that was sarcasm on Bryan's part -- not intended as slamming 
graphic artists, just venting about people who are clueless trying to lead 
him down the merry path??


At 01:32 PM 10/20/00 -0600, Shawn Sass wrote:
>If it weren't for graphic artists and thier "pretty pictures" there probably
>wouldn't be a world wide web as we know it today.  The web would still be 
>plain
>text  pages with the only people using it being scientists and programmers.  I
>don't think there would be much of a demand for advertisements, promotions, or
>complex web applications if that were the case.  Therefor there would be no
>demand for webmasters or web programmers because everybody using the web would
>be a programmer themselves.  That is why we make these "pretty" web pages 
>isn't
>it?  So that normal, non-programming, computer illiterate people will be able
>to use them.  If everyone looking at websites had programming knowledge they
>could look through a bunch of text and find what they wanted instead of
>clicking on pretty pictures that lead them to the same place.
>I'm a graphic designer and I know that without web programmers and the 
>advances
>they make my job would be ALOT harder.  I would expect that programmers would
>have a similar respect towards graphic designers.  Because if it weren't for
>us, you wouldn't have anybody to program for.
>
>Bryan Bateman wrote:
>
> > been around the block.  Know that they have someone in mind that 
> operates in
> > that manner, but they have to open it to the public ( it is a school 
> system)
> >
> > They advertized for a webmaster, but actually it seems they need more of a
> > graphic artist and wanted someone with photoshop to come and draw them a
> > pretty picture.
> >
> > ya win some ya loose some.  No hard feelings if someone on this list
> > recognises the job opening.
> >
> > I asked the question here to see if this type of method was being used by
> > other employers?  If this is the norm then I better rethink the way I am
> > preparing my job search.
> >
> > I thought the method was more how a contracting company bid for work 
> and not
> > what I am used to seeing when actually applying for work.  Maybe this 
> is the
> > beginning of the gray line between those two pursuits.
> >

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