web design -- one Photoshop file with everything ???

Im not sure if this goes outside of the guidlines of "acceptable"
topics for this area -- but it seems very relevent to me -------


How scary is this?

Im working at a major Fortune 500 company at the moment -- they've
decided to let someone who is essentially clueless develop their latest
intranet site.

He decided to "do everything in Photoshop because its much more
creative" ---. This includes text, icons -- everything. There are over
200 layers to this PSD file --------- and hes sorely ticked at trying
to make the doezens of changes they were asking for all morning. He is
a traditional Graphic Designer.

Now he's upset because the IT people informed him that if he's going to
design the intranet site -- then hed better learn how to code -- they
cant do a thing with his file -- AHEM lets not even talk about the
Linking issues -------- everything -- links and all are in this one PSD
file.

They are arguing about it now -- this "designer" says that he "can't be
bothered" to even learn HTML let alone javacript or DHTML -- he doesnt
think its necessary ------

This is what I was thinking of when I said in another post that I am
glad Im driven enough to want to learn and be stronger with my
programming skills. To me design is a synergy of graphics and
programming -- not either of them as separate entities.

Any thoughts on his approach? Ive never heard of anyone using what is
essentially an image-editing tool to build a whole site -------------- 

Lisa
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