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- creativeamp68, on 10/16/2007, -2/+33Great stuff, but that title is misleading, though. If I want to simplify my life as a Web Designer, why are they giving me SEVENTY-SEVEN Resources??
- TheInfamousOne, on 10/16/2007, -2/+13account suspended! Paying your bills should be #78
- vonskippy, on 10/16/2007, -2/+10Why is it all these so called "web designers" can't afford to host their brilliant ideas on anything but a $5/month crap host? And don't forget kiddies - web design is NOT server side design (that's called ENGINEERING).
- tempusrob, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Do the specs your clients give you have "1995" as a stylistic requirement?
- iepurilah, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Could use it some day
- betobeto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+678. Don't become one - There's more to life than hacking CSS and curse away at MSIE all day long.
Now, that was simple :) - CrimsonBlur, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4They forgot resource number 78: list of web hosts that can handle high traffic volumes.
- xtr3m, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Having 77 resources is not going to simplify anything.
- digital81, on 09/05/2008, -2/+5While a text editor is useful, for the coding aspect, you noobs saying that is all you need, good luck with making those nice graphics with your leet notepad skills.
- mdman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2already not working....
- topherbook, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Although I do all of my markup and CSS in a text editor (strict and valid, of course), to actually DESIGN something, you'd be wise to use some sort of graphics editing program.
- joelevi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2And scare your MSIE users into upgrading to a standards-compliant browser: http://digg.com/security/How_to_Scare_IE_Users_into_Upgrading_with_only_ONE_Line_of_Code
- theMetalEdge, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I completely disagree with a GOOD web designer needing only a text editor. A good web designer will design a website with efficiency in mind and use tools in order to do so. Such tools include Adobe's Dreamweaver, GoLive, etc.
Designing strictly in a text editor is way too time consuming and archaic. Imagine having to try and make an edit to a site 100+ pages using only notepad? You'd have to open every single page and make the edit. Where in an HTML authoring tool, you could use the search and replace function to automatically make the same edit across all pages.
I am not trying to put down any text editor coders out there, I just prefer using authoring tools because it makes designing, coding and managing sites much easier and faster. - vonskippy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Need a tissue? It's called C.O.M.P.E.T.I.T.I.O.N. If you don't like the crowded bottom feeder "web design" market, get out of it. You whine about your target market being flooded with losers, then you act like one by compromising on your rate and payment terms. It's funny how the successful people (in any market) never whine, and yet they deal with the same crap as you.
- norbiu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Not any more.
- tempusrob, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2"You'd have to open every single page and make the edit."
If you have a 100+ page site that doesn't use dynamic content ... http://i17.tinypic.com/4uix8v5.jpg - xaxxon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2regardless, what are you using now that 77 things makes SIMPLER?!?
- xenlab, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2graphics aren't required to create web sites, now are they mr. smartie pants? and how many noobs say that all you need is notepad? sounds like the opposite. I good go on, but I have work to do.
- treelovinhippie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+178) Destroy IE
- xenlab, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1How about (almost) every language specific IDE on the market?
And trust me, once you move away from DW you won't really miss the smart autocompletion as much (I used DW from v1.2 - MX 8, then I realized it was slowing me down, so I switched to TextMate + Transmit). - Hickeroar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That was my initial thought as well. Seems to be a a mild irony. A mild web 2.0 irony...
- tempusrob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If you're such a miracle worker, you should be working for clients who know better than to get burned by Joe's Web Design.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm still trying to find a good text editor that has smart autocompletion like Dreamweaver's. Syntax highlighting would be nice, too.
- mithi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2http://www.duggmirror.com
- phenomina3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0This is actually pretty cool. Having worked with XML and HTML, this stuff can make life easier and more fun. If you want to make a wesite that looks great and gives you spesifics, check this out.
- thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Actually, this is a really useful tip - make sure you invest in good hosting. Thanks!
- digital81, on 09/05/2008, -0/+0@xenlab Find me a customer that will pay over $50(and that is giving to much credit in my opinion) for your ***** website made courtesy of MS Notepad and I will begin to agree with you, until then, stfu.
- squidreturns, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1What part of "design" can you do with just a text editor? I'd love to see your ASCII art web site. I'm sure it's purdy. You're a ***** script kiddie wannabe.
I'm tired of competing with all you half-assed wannabe developers and domain hosting reseller ISP bottom feeders for projects. If you don't know how to do a project from start - conceptualizing your client's needs - through creative, as in how will the site look - through development, not just how you plug mootools or scriptaliscious into an Ajax template you stole from somewhere - through marketing, as in "now that we've got a site, how do we get anyone to care and look at it" - through monetizing, as in if your client paid you to do a site, they sure as hell expect a return on their investment that nets them cash... and all the while having a personality that doesn't resemble rainman and an appearance that doesn't require the judicious use of soap, deodorant, and oxy-10 - then leave the poor unsuspecting non-techie public alone.
I can't tell you how many people come to me to bail them out of a ***** website project saying "but I paid the developer $5000, and he left me high and dry" Then they want me to fix it, run adwords (included in the cost, of course) to generate traffic, and support a e-commerce infrastructure for the $1000 they have remaining in their bank account. Good thing for me that I can create miracles and that I can convince them that their site redevelopment will cost $15,000 - and I'll take the payment in installments after they are making money on the site. But the scumball developers are wreaking havoc with my cashflow... I have to wait 9-12 months for payments to trickle in, while busting hump to pull a rabbit out of a hat for my once-burned twice shy clients. - AmazingAndrex, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4Ugh more lists.
- vat0r, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2I fail to see how 77 additional resources can simplify a webdesigner's life at all. A designer needs only one thing..a good text editor.
- bamapachyderm, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2Great list!
- ian13, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1Use notepad.
- duerra, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1I'm a big fan of Xara3D for creating logos. It's a VERY useful and versatile tool. Think MS Word 3D-text on steroids. They have an online example here: http://www.xara.com/referrer/headmaker_trial.asp
- Funnyman22, on 10/10/2007, -6/+0@vat0r
a *good* designer needs only a text editor... this list is for everyone else.
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