Comments on: The death of web design http://www.clecompte.com/the-death-of-web-design/ Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:47:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dmitry http://www.clecompte.com/the-death-of-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-689 Dmitry Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:23:10 +0000 http://www.clecompte.com/?p=280#comment-689 There are still plenty of money in web design but it won't make you reach I guess just enough to get by. Also I can agree with some points mentioned in this article but have to say there are always plenty of work if you look hard enough. New sites appear and disappear every day so saying there is not enough work around for every web designer out there it over statement. Typical design cycle for existing website between 2-4 years then usually you have to redesign it. Outsourcing is actually slowly dying off more and more businesses prefer to deal with a local companies when need something done. Saying that most 12 years old can create a website for you it's absurd it's the same as this dummy series books you can became programmer in two weeks but you can't. The reallity it take 6 -10 years to learn programming and probabably 50-60% of people would failed any way. Is website design is died as source of revenue NO. Is website design died in general YES - it's seems in past couple years everyone just stuck with the same web 2 design concept and simply copy each other stuff over and over there is no more excitement on a web it became boring. WEB 2 + Web Design * Boring = died web design. There are still plenty of money in web design but it won’t make you reach I guess just enough to get by.
Also I can agree with some points mentioned in this article but have to say there are always plenty of work if you look hard enough.
New sites appear and disappear every day so saying there is not enough work around for every web designer out there it over statement. Typical design cycle for existing website between 2-4 years then usually you have to redesign it.
Outsourcing is actually slowly dying off more and more businesses prefer to deal with a local companies when need something done. Saying that most 12 years old can create a website for you it’s absurd it’s the same as this dummy series books you can became programmer in two weeks but you can’t. The reallity it take 6 -10 years to learn programming and probabably 50-60% of people would failed any way.
Is website design is died as source of revenue NO.
Is website design died in general YES – it’s seems in past couple years everyone just stuck with the same web 2 design concept and simply copy each other stuff over and over there is no more excitement on a web it became boring.
WEB 2 + Web Design * Boring = died web design.

]]> By: Oskar Smith http://www.clecompte.com/the-death-of-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-680 Oskar Smith Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:39:02 +0000 http://www.clecompte.com/?p=280#comment-680 Looks like I'm a latecomer to your blog post, but I stumbled across it while reading some articles on this subject; a subject that I tend to wake up thinking about and go to sleep thinking about! Our industry has changed beyond recognition over the last 10 years or so and it makes one's head hurt sometimes trying to keep up! Anyway, just wanted to say great post and your last paragraph sums up my thinking exactly. Looks like I’m a latecomer to your blog post, but I stumbled across it while reading some articles on this subject; a subject that I tend to wake up thinking about and go to sleep thinking about! Our industry has changed beyond recognition over the last 10 years or so and it makes one’s head hurt sometimes trying to keep up! Anyway, just wanted to say great post and your last paragraph sums up my thinking exactly.

]]> By: Mike http://www.clecompte.com/the-death-of-web-design/comment-page-1/#comment-556 Mike Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:53:22 +0000 http://www.clecompte.com/?p=280#comment-556 At first I was surprised no one has commented on this article yet. Though it should be no surprise. The web developer community is pretty small really. I agree with every reason you gave. But you left a big one out. Blogs. Particularly Wordpress. And, to go a step further, Google's love for Wordpress. So many people who have consistently ran blogs for the last few years are doing extremely well without knowing one thing about any kind of code at all. So, basically, I would say outsourcing and blogs are the culprits that have you asking "how did this happen"? At first I was surprised no one has commented on this article yet. Though it should be no surprise. The web developer community is pretty small really.

I agree with every reason you gave. But you left a big one out. Blogs. Particularly WordPress. And, to go a step further, Google’s love for WordPress.

So many people who have consistently ran blogs for the last few years are doing extremely well without knowing one thing about any kind of code at all.

So, basically, I would say outsourcing and blogs are the culprits that have you asking “how did this happen”?

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