Comments on: Can Graphic Designers Do Website Design?

By: Web Design

Web Design — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:03:30 +0000

Great article I am always amazing by how many peolpe starting out end up with a website that looks stunning, functions ok but will never get past 10 of the google serps for even non competitive terms. A good read. thanks.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:51:59 +0000

Couldn’t have said it better… You have to find a balance of good design, followed by functionality and usability and web optimization. You can create powerful and attractive site with all of the above, train your designers to work hand in hand with your developers find a balance.

By: Web site promotion software

Web site promotion software — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:35:28 +0000

We deal with this daily. It’s the constant battle of design versus utility and finding the balance to create the perfect customer experience.

By: Website design kent

Website design kent — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:43:48 +0000

That gives three areas which are not necessarily mutually exclusive; 1) design, 2) implementation, and 3) promotion. I always find it obvious after I have made a design in Fireworks that design and implementation are separate skills. It always takes longer than I expect to chop the design into a fully working HTML version of the same design. You often have to modify/compromise the original design to make something sensible for the web.

By: webdesigner

webdesigner — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:38:01 +0000

Same question can be posted regarding web designers and SEO. Can web designers perform effective SEO? So take that a step back and if you’re having your graphic designer do your web design, what are the chances they know anything about SEO? Hmm…

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By: Google Success

Google Success — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:26:40 +0000

I currently live in Japan and I have been trying to send the same message to Japanese website owners. In Japan, the aesthetic appeal of the website is given more importance; most websites are designed by graphic artists and have fancy looking flash media or pictures - even the text content is converted to pictures to make it look more attractive.

These websites are mostly for decoration purpose or just for boosting one’s ego. I have met clients who did not make a single sale through their websites, even though they had websites for more than 3-4 years. And companies pay thousands of dollars to make such useless websites. So I guess a country’s culture also plays major role in how the websites are designed.