Lazy developers
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- taxiguerrilla0
If you want your graphic on the web to look exactly as you designed it on photoshop, just export some jpg and upload it to the web.
- spraycan0
dhtml + cufon
- Stugoo0
pixel perfection makes part of the profession. ©
- PIZZA0
oh and don't get me started on whining about having to work in someone else's code. IT'S PART OF YOUR FUCKING JOB! think I like digging around in some cunts PSD file with hundreds of unnamed layers?
I accept it will take longer if its someone else's code, but whining about it every step of the fucking way or just refusing to do it and hacking something else together on top of it, FUCK OFF.
- welded0
I think the take-away here is that you guys apparently work with the worst/most junior developers in the world. I'm sorry for that. :/ A good developer will make it work and have a good reason when something won't. Keeping in mind I've had to work with many PSDs where the designer has thought they've made my life easier by plotting a hundred guides or flattened layers or not used layer comps or used off-pixel vector shapes... It goes both ways, guys.
- d_rek0
Understandably a two-way street. I can sympathize with PonyBoy here. I work with an in-house dev who is of the utmost lazy. The last site I designed I had to literally sit over his shoulder while he re-sliced up assets because what he build was so far off-spec it was frightening. He also made a large amount of stylistic changes which were way-off spec. He's a classic case of developer/designer-wannabe... which makes working with him very challenging.
On the flipside i've worked with a really great dev who delivered on all fronts and even went above and beyond to add lots of little finishing touches I hadn't thought of.
- lukus_W0
Maybe you're not paying enough? Perhaps you need a better front-end developer?
- 23kon0
"Most developers haven't developed the eye for composition and spacial harmony that designers have. "by MonNom
He's right.
If you want your graphics cut up all pixel perfect etc then do it yourself.
a designer SHOULD be doing that sort of stuff anyway.when i hand over stuff to our developers, they get jpegs of the pages, printouts of the pages with all colours/fonts/sizes marked up on it
(rather than just giving them a psd to look at and judge sizes/pixels)
and they get all the images cut up needed for the build.
- moth0
"oh and don't get me started on whining about having to work in someone else's code"
Spoken like a true hack-it-about designer.
A poorly structure PSD doesn't stop photoshop working.
Poorly structured code, does.
- PIZZA0
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Spoken like a true lazy cunt.
He had a set of fucking hand over notes, and did the project in 5 minutes when he stopped being a whiney bitch. And I've done lots of development myself and worked with other peoples flash files so I know exactly what its like. As I said in an earlier post, not all developers are bad and a good one would have never given drama over that job but lazy ones are the majority."If you want your graphics cut up all pixel perfect etc then do it yourself.
a designer SHOULD be doing that sort of stuff anyway."
Thats moronic, the cutting up of graphics has a huge impact on how something is coded.- Im by no means a lazy developer but i gripe like a mother fucker when it isnt done how i like it... the right way!Stugoo
- must_dash0
stop swearing, you're not 12 years old are you?
- doesnotexist0
I am continually asking mine to follow the design boards I provide. it's a pain-filled process.
- moth0
"Spoken like a true lazy cunt."
Not really. I heartily expect that the only reason you're making a developer bend someone elses code is because the last one walked off the job because of your lack of understanding.
Anyway - as a developer, I pick what I work on. And I don't take on sloppy seconds. I don't have to. So why would I?