Funny how life goes around in circles

[ElectricArtist]

>>Musings from an old person >>
As an illustrator and print graphic designer (from a time when there was no ‘web’ version of the profession), my first interest in creating web pages arose when I realized I could slice up a page-sized Photoshop image and carefully place all the slices into the cells of a table(!)

But alas, with dial-up internet hovering around the slow to incredibly slow mark, such pages were a novelty only, and had no place in the real internet world.

So I spent ten years learning HTML and CSS, and was soon creating fast loading – but graphically anaemic – sites at 640x480 or 800x600 resolutions, forever following the adage that the entire front page, graphics and all, should never exceed 32kb.

Suddenly, with arrival of speedy broadband and screens that are larger than the door on a toaster oven, I see the ‘sliced-up-Photoshop page’ format returning. Not only that, but with a proliferation of ‘PSD to HTML’ services around to take the load off code-wary designers, there’s no longer a need to learn any code whatsoever.
Or is there…?

Your comments please...?
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[ranchero80]

Sliced up photoshop formats are never going to take over, they are too hard to change and not search engine friendly.

[ElectricArtist]

Yeah tell me about it. In the rest of the post, on my blog, that's my opinion too. Except I've just had an argument with a young guy who thinks they're the ONLY way to build a web page.

[ranchero80]

people like that don't last in this industry long, if they get in at all. I'd like to see him apply for a web design job, The employer would laugh their head off!!

I have recently noticed the trend of people moving to programs like wordpress and joomla which just unpack out of the box insead of building from scratch. Its an awesome idea but leaves me wondering how my job will change in the future...

[ElectricArtist]

Agreed. I had my eye opened the other day by a 22-year-old IT student who has several websites. I questioned him on the 'sameness' of his designs and then discovered they were ALL Wordpress sites - and from free online themes! He had charged people to 'create' these sites!