LOL.... :1orglaugh

Gotta love the search and spam surfers.

WordPress does not require real designers, WordPress requires some real scripting knowledge to implement a fully creative layout. However there are numerous templates out there that can be made over and redone and it does not cost as much.

Most Designers lack skill in coding or do not specialise in Coding, much like myself.
You may need someone like WebInc, or one of those sorts of design houses that have a coding freak and designing freak.

But hey a year later doesnt hurt to make a post;) 26,950!

Not really, as I just clicked his link and will probably place an order with him sometime soon. :thumbsup

Say hello to my little design. I bury you cockaroaches.

adultdesign.com or dickman's

My favorites right now.

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Combination of great designer and great coder can make magic for you.. Thats what i do at my workshop. motiontheme.com I design and code. I think every single WEB designer must have great xhtml skills as he must design and consider how its gonna be optimized and markeup at the end. For me it has never been a problem that is why i can afford offering great design and top quality coding. My prices maybe above average on the market but i keep my customers satisfied!

Hmm ... while I can do pretty much all the CSS I need to ... I choose not to. Why? Well ... why would I want to focus my energies into coding when I'm a designer? I draw stuff. I make it look good ... I don't wanna waste my time doing technical stuff when I can focus, become better at the art side, and then have a specialist do high quality code for me?

I agree you should have an understanding of the code side ... but I really don't agree that you should great xhtml skills.

That said ... I'm not knocking your skills ... :) Just opinion :)

haha

you designs do look great!

50 experienced designers :thumbsup

Just a thought...
 

Yeah i agree that its not obligation of having coding skills for sure. Top quality designers in the most leading companies in the world are not hired to code and that´s the fact but when you get to interview they will ask you 100% if you have any skills or knowledge of html etc just to make sure designer can distinct certain techniques of web design to make sure the coder wont have to send a redesign request :)

I have been working many years as a principal web designer and had to work closely with coders and the truth is when the coder gets the final design version he actually must code it exactly as it appears on the final file but the problem comes when certain parts of design simply bring pain in the ass to code due that designer had its own artistic picture and could not consider that certain parts should be done in a coding consideration manner, then the coder must send a request with detailed explanation why it can not be coded etc etc the routine process. But of course professional WEB designers they do consider markup techniques and in most cases they do have html/css skills and how certain parts will be seen on variouse resolutions etc etc.

Web design is a great, creative and technical profession which i love the most! :)

note: you can "design" in css, too.

Yep, huge part of design is produced on css part.