Comments on: Creativity and web development http://www.position-relative.com/2007/10/creativity-and-web-development/ web design/development | my studio | design resources Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:52:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Gil http://www.position-relative.com/2007/10/creativity-and-web-development/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Gil Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:54:19 +0000 http://www.position-relative.com/~relat1ve/?p=171#comment-124 Having morphed into the SEO realm from the web site developer/designer side my main comment is that if you are not creative in some way (design or development) you will not survive. I spend a great part of my time working on sites that look great but do not work. Anyone in this field must understand you are writing/coding for two environments the user/reader of the site and the SE spiders or monitors. Creativity is invoked in both environments Having morphed into the SEO realm from the web site developer/designer side my main comment is that if you are not creative in some way (design or development) you will not survive. I spend a great part of my time working on sites that look great but do not work. Anyone in this field must understand you are writing/coding for two environments the user/reader of the site and the SE spiders or monitors. Creativity is invoked in both environments

]]> By: Peter Morffew http://www.position-relative.com/2007/10/creativity-and-web-development/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Peter Morffew Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:54:30 +0000 http://www.position-relative.com/~relat1ve/?p=171#comment-123 I am a artist who has done some graphic design and has composed several websites. Without doubt website design and composition is a creative process. The skill that goes into a good website that is attractive,successful and aesthetically pleasing is just as creative as producing a painting or any graphic's. All have to appeal to the audience to be successful. Website design is special in that it is a interactive event. A website has to be navigable, attract the audience in a matter of seconds or the viewer will move on and also be found amongst the millions of other website sites on the internet. The website designer. A painting can be viewed at length and revisited at will whilst it is hanging in a gallery. A name can also sell a painting. Hockney has no trouble selling his. The graphic image is very much the same except it is selling merchandise, again the product could help sell the image. In webdesign the immediate impression is all important or the audience is lost for ever or to the big guys such as Amazon. I am a artist who has done some graphic design and has composed several websites.
Without doubt website design and composition is a creative process.
The skill that goes into a good website that is attractive,successful and aesthetically pleasing is just as creative as producing a painting or any graphic’s.
All have to appeal to the audience to be successful.
Website design is special in that it is a interactive event. A website has to be navigable,
attract the audience in a matter of seconds or the viewer will move on and also be found amongst the millions of other website sites on the internet.
The website designer.
A painting can be viewed at length and revisited at will whilst it is hanging in a gallery. A name can also sell a painting. Hockney has no trouble selling his.
The graphic image is very much the same except it is selling merchandise, again the product could help sell the image.
In webdesign the immediate impression is all important or the audience is lost for ever or to the big guys such as Amazon.

]]> By: William Patterson http://www.position-relative.com/2007/10/creativity-and-web-development/comment-page-1/#comment-125 William Patterson Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:39:47 +0000 http://www.position-relative.com/~relat1ve/?p=171#comment-125 I fully agree. I do both well but do not consider myself a programmer...In fact I do not like programming but enjoy using AJAX tools such as spry or fun code that is third party to produce nice looling sites that have good navigation and are 508 compliant. I have been called a UI developer or designer but I am not a true graphics designer. More of a jack of all things...what ever I need to get what I invision done. I fully agree. I do both well but do not consider myself a programmer…In fact I do not like programming but enjoy using AJAX tools such as spry or fun code that is third party to produce nice looling sites that have good navigation and are 508 compliant. I have been called a UI developer or designer but I am not a true graphics designer. More of a jack of all things…what ever I need to get what I invision done.

]]> By: Larry http://www.position-relative.com/2007/10/creativity-and-web-development/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Larry Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:15:31 +0000 http://www.position-relative.com/~relat1ve/?p=171#comment-121 David, Everyone is a comedian!! Bad english grammar even in blogs is not good!!! Sorry about the trying to do 5 things at one time thought. What I meant to say was ANYONE can be a client and as I am sure alot of people here have experienced there will always be some rub between people that are PURE designers and people who code. There was a great comment earlier in the blog about math and creativity. There is creativity in everything. It really comes down to the individual NOT one vs. the other. OK... Back to coding ..I mean designing!! ha!! David,

Everyone is a comedian!! Bad english grammar even in blogs is not good!!! Sorry about the trying to do 5 things at one time thought. What I meant to say was ANYONE can be a client and as I am sure alot of people here have experienced there will always be some rub between people that are PURE designers and people who code. There was a great comment earlier in the blog about math and creativity. There is creativity in everything. It really comes down to the individual NOT one vs. the other. OK… Back to coding ..I mean designing!! ha!!

]]> By: David Pleydell http://www.position-relative.com/2007/10/creativity-and-web-development/comment-page-1/#comment-120 David Pleydell Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:01:40 +0000 http://www.position-relative.com/~relat1ve/?p=171#comment-120 Dear Larry I would love to hear your thoughts on how one can as a designer and not a client could easily become one? Dear Larry
I would love to hear your thoughts on how one can as a designer and not a client could easily become one?

]]> By: debbie campbell http://www.position-relative.com/2007/10/creativity-and-web-development/comment-page-1/#comment-119 debbie campbell Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:30:01 +0000 http://www.position-relative.com/~relat1ve/?p=171#comment-119 Thanks Larry - I appreciate everyone's input here... Thanks Larry – I appreciate everyone’s input here…

]]> By: Larry http://www.position-relative.com/2007/10/creativity-and-web-development/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Larry Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:30:13 +0000 http://www.position-relative.com/~relat1ve/?p=171#comment-118 One more thing and I wil leave you all alone!! HA.. GOOD COMMENTS BY THE WAY! I noticed the comment about having graphic design experience ect. I agree with that to a point. The thing that alot of people miss and I have seen this alot more lately is "cool" vs. function. The clients are finally starting to get that a website is more an identity and not just something you slap up on the web. The problem comes sometimes that a client has a super cool looking site that has the functionality of a pet rock(no offense to all you pet rock people). The one comment by someone about the original issue about using creative in the name. Wjo knows? I can on some level see their point but then again it was a designer and NOT a client although they could easily become one. Your website is very cool and I wish you all the best. One more thing and I wil leave you all alone!! HA.. GOOD COMMENTS BY THE WAY! I noticed the comment about having graphic design experience ect. I agree with that to a point. The thing that alot of people miss and I have seen this alot more lately is “cool” vs. function. The clients are finally starting to get that a website is more an identity and not just something you slap up on the web. The problem comes sometimes that a client has a super cool looking site that has the functionality of a pet rock(no offense to all you pet rock people).

The one comment by someone about the original issue about using creative in the name. Wjo knows? I can on some level see their point but then again it was a designer and NOT a client although they could easily become one. Your website is very cool and I wish you all the best.

]]> By: Grant Evans http://www.position-relative.com/2007/10/creativity-and-web-development/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Grant Evans Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:21:48 +0000 http://www.position-relative.com/~relat1ve/?p=171#comment-117 Being a developer/designer, I put the developer first because that's where my passion is, I often find that people assume because I'm a developer that I'm not a creative. Even when I'm not building the front-end design, there is so much creativity involved in making the front-end seemly work with the back-end. You can take the most beautiful design mockups, plop them on the web and end up with a bad site. That's where the developers creativity comes in. Turning the design into a fully-functioning, smoothly flowing, interactive and engaging site. If your front-end doesn't match your back-end the whole package isn't complete. Being a developer/designer, I put the developer first because that’s where my passion is, I often find that people assume because I’m a developer that I’m not a creative. Even when I’m not building the front-end design, there is so much creativity involved in making the front-end seemly work with the back-end. You can take the most beautiful design mockups, plop them on the web and end up with a bad site. That’s where the developers creativity comes in. Turning the design into a fully-functioning, smoothly flowing, interactive and engaging site. If your front-end doesn’t match your back-end the whole package isn’t complete.

]]> By: On "creative" writing! http://www.position-relative.com/2007/10/creativity-and-web-development/comment-page-1/#comment-116 On "creative" writing! Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:20:26 +0000 http://www.position-relative.com/~relat1ve/?p=171#comment-116 I'm a teacher of writing - it drives me crazy when people talk about "creative" writing as if fictional prose/poetry requires any different set of skills than solid discursive writing. Writing anything requires creativity - just as web design does. I’m a teacher of writing – it drives me crazy when people talk about “creative” writing as if fictional prose/poetry requires any different set of skills than solid discursive writing. Writing anything requires creativity – just as web design does.

]]> By: Arthur Baldwin http://www.position-relative.com/2007/10/creativity-and-web-development/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Arthur Baldwin Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:15:47 +0000 http://www.position-relative.com/~relat1ve/?p=171#comment-115 My website is still very much under construction. I agree that website design/developer experts are indeed extremely creative. For example, knowing how to use "Blender" animation software to develop an animation for a website and then finding a file format that is vector based, allowing fast loading and execution...well let's just say that a graphic artist would be a little bit "lost". Each person has their own area of expertise and interest. A graphic artist is probably more of an "artist", but coding software is just as creative. To a mathematician, just thinking about the ideas behind math systems is just as creative as the other fields. And it can pay off big time in future software development. Creativity can be applied to ANY field of endeavor and simply defines a person as having an interest in exercising the "imagination" that was bestowed upon them by God. God intended for us to be like Him in that respect. To give up on the idea of "being creative" is to give up on being who God made you to be. There are only two kinds of people in this world: those who think school is a "drag", and those who know that education is a lifetime process...without which a soul becomes lifeless. God bless your creativity. Arthur My website is still very much under construction. I agree that website design/developer experts are indeed extremely creative. For example, knowing how to use “Blender” animation software to develop an animation for a website and then finding a file format that is vector based, allowing fast loading and execution…well let’s just say that a graphic artist would be a little bit “lost”. Each person has their own area of expertise and interest. A graphic artist is probably more of an “artist”, but coding software is just as creative. To a mathematician, just thinking about the ideas behind math systems is just as creative as the other fields. And it can pay off big time in future software development.
Creativity can be applied to ANY field of endeavor and simply defines a person as having an interest in exercising the “imagination” that was bestowed upon them by God. God intended for us to be like Him in that respect. To give up on the idea of “being creative” is to give up on being who God made you to be.

There are only two kinds of people in this world: those who think school is a “drag”, and those who know that education is a lifetime process…without which a soul becomes lifeless.

God bless your creativity.

Arthur

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