Do you consider yourself to be a Web Designer or a Web Developer?
If you 'create' websites, what do you call yourself? A common misconception nowadays is that if you have created a page in frontpage you know how to make websites. Is this valid? I don't know!
I refute the term web designer for what I do, a designer designs things, they don't make them. They think "this would look pretty with that" and that's pretty much the end of it.
I would term myself as a web developer, I don't simply design a site, I have process driven development.
Sites that we design & develop start with a requirements stage, then a design stage, then a development stage, followed by a presentation stage and ended with a sign off stage. Is this simply a design of a website? No, of course not, it is a creation from conception, through design and ultimately ending in release.
The point of this (which perhaps I should have started with) is simply that people who are genuinely good at creating sites and their content sometimes sell themselves short by using a term that has been coined from others.
If a bin man can be a 'refuse logistics operator' then why the hell can't you tart up your own title and make it reflect what you really do?
If you 'create' websites, what do you call yourself? A common misconception nowadays is that if you have created a page in frontpage you know how to make websites. Is this valid? I don't know!
I refute the term web designer for what I do, a designer designs things, they don't make them. They think "this would look pretty with that" and that's pretty much the end of it.
I would term myself as a web developer, I don't simply design a site, I have process driven development.
Sites that we design & develop start with a requirements stage, then a design stage, then a development stage, followed by a presentation stage and ended with a sign off stage. Is this simply a design of a website? No, of course not, it is a creation from conception, through design and ultimately ending in release.
The point of this (which perhaps I should have started with) is simply that people who are genuinely good at creating sites and their content sometimes sell themselves short by using a term that has been coined from others.
If a bin man can be a 'refuse logistics operator' then why the hell can't you tart up your own title and make it reflect what you really do?