Well I am talking about:
a) my company, specifically
b) visually creative work (ie "art")

I do *alot* of programming and I realize that all the hard/interesting/fun
jobs require creativity.  


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Dewayne Cushman wrote:

><Note>The following is not a rant, or accusation, just a point of
>view.</Note>
>
>That is a typical description, but I must take exception with your comment
>about programmers never doing creative stuff. In all engineering
>professions, the architects always are considered to be the creative force
>whill the engineers are the worker bees. However, most people have no idea
>as to how creative programmers and engineers have to be to implement the
>designer/architects vision on computer hardware. If you are tied to a
>database or transactional processing system, then there has definitely
been
>some creative input in the process based on database balancing, or load
>balancing. These are more of the Arts of computer systems versus the
science
>of returning rows of data.
>
>As a programmer, I realize that I don't want to do the graphic or visual
>side of a software system (web or otherwise), but I feel that the design
and
>implementation of the systems I build are very creative.
>
>Later,
>Dewayne Cushman
>Houston, TX
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Phil Babcock [mailto:pbabcock(at)bgsgroup.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 8:07 AM
>To: Aline Parrone; hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
>Subject: Re: what is a web designer?
>
>
>Cant speak for all, but for me:
>
>-anything to do with photos (editing, taking, scanning, etc)
>-any graphic work (creation, manipulation, animation, etc)
>-site design and layout
>-database work (integrating with the site, etc)
>-*any* other webpage related coding - html, dhhtml, java, javascript
>-multimedia work (ie movie ripping, real video production, sound)
>-flash production
>
>Thats it.  There are some programming guys here, but they do *more*
backend
>stuff. I say more because I do some of that too, while they *never* do
>front end or creative stuff...
>
>But thats just me.
>
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>Aline Parrone wrote:
>
>>first question for the list:
>>
>>what exactly does a web designer do?  meaning, what are the realms of
>>his/her services?  what are the "must things" a designer should to be
>called
>>such? and what are the optional things he may not do?
>>
>>just curious,
>>aline
>
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>Phil Babcock
>Lead Web Designer
>BGS Group Inc.

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Phil Babcock
Lead Web Designer
BGS Group Inc.

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