Web Designers and CSS3 Tricks
This week I had two different articles go out on different blogs.
The first was over on Peachpit.com where I’m writing a weekly blog now called “Ask the Web Designer“. This week I answered the very basic question “What is a Web designer?” Answer: Everybody. Here’s a bit more of my answer:
The long answer is that a good Web designer is a good design, and this can come “naturally” or from training, but is not medium dependent. However, a professional Web designer has to understand the medium well enough to know it’s strengths and limitations. Any designer can pump out something that looks brilliant when displayed in a Web browser window, but is slow to load, static when loaded, and completely unusable.
I also finally had an article I wrote weeks ago published in Webdesigner Depot with 5 (really 6) new CSS3 techniques that work in several browsers. However, since none of the browsers that supported the techniques included any version of IE and even though I went to great pains to explain that up front and talk about using these to enhance designs, the post caused quite a lot of heated discussion around using anything that doesn’t work in the browser that “everyone” is using. Here’s a typical comment in that vein:
While not developing for IE may work for you, most clients I’ve had still use IE. I do think if people start using these new techniques in sites it may help push IE to support the new techniques, yet I won’t be able to use them until they work for my clients.
Overall, the comments were positive, though, and I hope that the article will get some good discussions started around Web designers supporting a Web browser that seems hell bent on not supporting Web design.
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