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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -41/+163real designers use notepad.
- rauz, on 10/12/2007, -12/+133I've been a webdesigner for more than 13 years and I've come to know that most of the people that claim "nOTepad is teh 1337est c0ding tool" are the exact same people this article makes fun of.
- csimpkins, on 10/12/2007, -6/+124Yeah, if you're using notepad to code, I'm pretty sure you're an idiot.
Text editors ARE great... but not notepad. - zanejamal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+66Way hay another retard. Are you telling me you are so thick you cant even understand it is sarcasm... Wow...
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -29/+92"real designers use notepad."
Woot for hand coding. - iDiggIt42, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47In Soviet Russia, article couldn't you!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+58"real designers use notepad"
Wrong. Real designers use Vim. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34buy?
- imyayo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33"Once you’ve become leet at sigs"
hahaha. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32well, using plain notepad isn't the best choice, we know that...
I was just implying that if you don't learn to hand code, you'll never really understand what does what.
I respect people that can start with a blank page and type out amazing websites. - EXreaction, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31Noobs use Notepad.
Guru's use Notepad++.
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/ - iDiggIt42, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30How to be a web designer:
1) Buy Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Whore tutorials, and gather the skillz of some e1337 6 year old
2) ???
3) Profit! - FrankieB078, on 10/12/2007, -11/+37Does code view in Dreamweaver count?
- MatttK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26I don't think ANYONE is implying that they ACTUALLY use Notepad... rather, they mean that they use some kind of text editor. For example, I use Notepad++ and vim. Notepad just gets the point across easier because everyone knows what it is.
- Takteek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26I couldn't your comment because it was incomprehensible.
- ottoradke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Real designers get someone to build Digg for $200.
- thewump, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23This is *****. All you need is a copy of Frontpage and an ass load of animated gifs for backgrounds.
- legendxx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21you are an idiot.
- blakeh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Dreanweaver code view all the way!
- KyleMistry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17@iDiggIt42 "Now, am I being sarcastic or not? "
Um...uh...I'd like to use my "call a friend" lifeline. - andr3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17I write my code by hand, literally. I dip my fingers in paint and write it onto a piece of paper. I then use a scanner, OCR software and FTP client to test it. You guys are so lucky to even have notepad.
(oh and a sidenote: and I know I did it too, but digg should find a way to avoid this "reply to 1st comment" threads... max subcomments per comment?) - rationalist, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Real designers use notepad - and a pencil. Sniff.
- fearofcorners, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I code web stuff exclusively by hand, and I've been doing it that way for nearly ten years but I still use dreamweaver most of the time. It's always on whatever machine I'm using and it has line counting and syntax highlighting, which is all I really want or need. jEdit often seems sluggish and doesn't use ClearType when running on windows.
- Chongo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Poor designers use notepad
- MondayJBlack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14The worst is when you hire a person with these skills... UGH!
- iDiggIt42, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Babyboy808: Search the Videos section for "Sarcasm 101". After you've watched that, tell me if you get the point. Here's some practice:
Excellent comment! So intelligent, it makes me want to marry you!!!1111oneoneoneeleventy
Now, am I being sarcastic or not? This is a hard one now, folks. - rationalist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"If you want to learn how something works you take it apart, If you really care enough and pay attention you will know how to put it back together again."
Note: This is not so effective when applied to Girlfriend. - iDiggIt42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Thank you, Captain Obvious. You and Babyboy have saved us all from t3h sarcasmz.
- Julek, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Babyboy808: Haha, wow. Was this a sarcastic comment? I hope so ;)
- FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10You just get mad when people comment on how you spell words like "pretentious." It's not that they are actually pretentious, it's that you're stupid. ;-P
- BryanTheCrow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12@SteveHiggs
You have flaunted your ignorance on so manly levels that I just can't keep quiet.
It just needs to be said that it's "web developers" like you who think you know what you're doing that make it so hard for those of us in the real world to filter through your types to find the _real_ web developers when we're hiring. If you don't embrace object oriented development, a modular separation of data, business logic & the user interface, some sort of CVS system, and any time-saving tools you can find (sytax-highlighting saves time, auto-tab saves time, auto-complete saves time, regex search saves time, runtime-debugging saves time, I could go on...), then you're nothing more than an inefficient nuisance, crowding the stack of resumes with rubbish that needs to be discarded. I truly feel sorry for your clients as you've clearly taken advantage of the fact that they just don't know any better.
And to the rest of you...
If you take _so_ much pride in the simple fact that you know html/css well enough to throw out a web page without the assistance of a wysiwyg editor that you decided you'd post a comment on this article, then you're exactly the person this article is mocking. - gijoel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Real coders use punch cards.
- bobgb4, on 10/12/2007, -22/+31double woot for notepad
- treyd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"I couldn't the article because it wasn't usable."
What?
You must be the "uberdesigner" this article is talking about. - radiantm3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I'll pipe in to say real web designers use whatever text editor that makes them most efficient. Personally, Textmate (www.macromates.com) is the best editor and forget SFTP features... SVN is definitely where it's at.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12"real designers use notepad."
You mean Masochist use notepad? Really, what web designer wants to type everything by long hand when there are tools to do all of that small menial crap. If I was a Web Design firm and you put down Notepad as your prefered tool, I wouldn't hire you. Time is money... - iDiggIt42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@Jeifurie: Pirating works, as well. Donate the money saved to the future owners of Sealand.
@jimmygoon:
1) Wet floor
2) Neon Text
3) Gloss on the neon text
4) The little "Beta" button - iDiggIt42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@Kyle: I'm sorry, I was being sarcastic when I told you you had lifelines :P
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7haha satire on the all of the "professional" l33t Photoshop users on digg.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13aka those things that make each page on a forum take 20 times longer to load.
This article may teach you how to become a web designer, but becoming a "good" web designer takes a lot of work and experience. - starkraving, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"explanation marks".... ROTFL
- hamstu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Great writeup, made me laugh... and it's so true.
- iDiggIt42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Sell them to 1337d0m41nz.com, of course!
- zeno60, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6What!?! This isn't real? Awww damn, now what am I going to do with l33t-dezignz-cr3w.com and ub3rgrafikz.com!!!
[/joke] - MrMcGuire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The real key to becoming a web designer (or anything) is to really love what you do and do it often. I started the same way by making signatures for clanmates and slowly started working my way up to websites (with a few print designs interspersed for friends/acquaintances who needed them). You don't have to start with signatures. You should do anything to advance your knowledge of photoshop. Start by having a goal of making your 'companies' website. That will get you learning the basics of PS and Dreamweaver. Don't pin yourself into one category. If you have to, start by going to sites like monstertemplates.com and making sites based on their categories. "I'm going to make a architecture site for a made up company." If you are looking to join a web firm, make sure that you get quite a few designs in your portfolio showcasing your skills. If you do get in to an interview and you only have personal work to show, that's fine. Just be sure that it's quality and try to make it applicable to the business that you're applying to (if you see that they do a lot of flash based sites, make sure they see that first, things like that). Also, be sure to express how much you love doing what you do.
But yeah, long story short. Love what you do, do it often, separate yourself, and have fun... - TheOneGreatX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5babyboy, you have a very fitting user name.
- geek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5i can tell you feel "stupider", it shows in your grammar.
And 3/4 of the people who read it and understood it, had to actual laugh out loud because they know someone who actually follows that.
In short: good article. - Jammer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5SteveHiggs == Clueless wannabe
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I giggled
- donnyburnside, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Oh my...
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