Re: Vanishing web design careers...

Well I guess I am fortunate and driven enough to be able to function as
both a graphic designer and programmer --- they both go hand-in-hand.
Its just strange to me that there are web designers who cant work with
code and only with graphics and vice-versa ---- o well.

Lisa

--- unique <unique(at)ptd.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Jack Martin wrote:
> 
> > > << No one wants
> > > to hire two people -- an artist and a
> programmer.
> > > If they do, they'll put up $8/hr. for each.>>
> >
> > True, but in the future, from what I understand,
> HTML will be replaced
> > by XML.  As the web gets more and more complicated
> -- that is allow more
> > and more features to be programmed in -- companies
> *will* need to hire a
> > programmer and an artist to do the work.  Finding
> a good programmer who
> > is also a good graphic artist (or vice versa) will
> become increasingly
> > difficult, because both fields will become too
> specialized.  Sadly
> > though, I think that most companies would rather
> have a programmer who
> > can put in "feature-happy" bells and whistles, and
> to hell with the art.
> >
> > By the way, there's a good article in Scientific
> American (I belive last
> > month's) about XML.  Definitely worth reading if
> you're going to make a
> > career out of web site design.
> 
> Here's a link to that article:
> 
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/1999/0599issue/0599bosak.html
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Ken Sherwood
> 
> 

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