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Who does the design?

[adamnichols45]

So you fancy yourself as the programmer! Or maybe the designer!

Who does what and why?

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I do both the programming side and the design side although I do take alot of inspiration from other sites.

But hey all the big guys do (Im not a big guy lol).

[engine]

I believe in letting the designer do the designs and the programer handle the coding.

What they do need is guidance. Otherwise, the designer comes up with something that won't be acceptable and the programer codes uneccessary features.

[LifeinAsia]

I do the programming. Fifteen drunk monkeys do the design.

No, wait, that's what my wife said about my site years ago. So now I have her, with her design background, do the designing. :)

Anybody need 15 drunk monkeys? I'd like to let them go, but then they'll just go and file unemployment claims, raising my UI rates.

[puppetmaster]

I do the designing and most of the programming what I can’t do or don’t have the time to do I barter with my programmer friends to get done. It works out well.

puppetmaster

[Matt Probert]

I do the design, coding, and text. My daughter poses for some photos and takes others (don't get excited, she posed for photos like 'chicken pox').

Usability testing is done by myself, wife and daughter. I once took advice from peers on the Internet, it cost me several thousand pounds before I realised I was being given bad advice....

Matt

[brickwall]

all the development and marketing responsibilities rest on my shoulders right now. i own about 90% of the projects i do and work freelance on the other 10%

how i wish i could change my setup. i know it's for the better. but it's either iam too spend-thrift to pay for services i can do myself or iam just not a good manager. or both.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I do the designing, the coding, the marketing, the accounts, the sales, the research and I also make the tea the coffeee and the evening meal about three nights a week.

Sigh ... I wish it were different!

[adamnichols45]

Dont get me wrong I have tryed out sourcing certain parts of a progect to India etc but they always come back with really inflated prices.

If I wanted to pay US prices I would try and find somebody from the US not India!

[TerryG]

I also do it all, the one time i did out source something they conned the guy into letting them take the site over "and sign a contract", now its a cookie cutter sight ( ya i said sight.)

being vendictive i showed him 7 other sites just like his, heheh.

[rocknbil]

The new tasks I pull down the more fun it gets because each time I learn something new, and learn how to do it as well as possible. I'm beginning to think this is really rare!

At first it was design, then backend programming, then setting up servers, then I became a photographer and copywriter to help populate the programming with products. Once the projects were humming along on their own, it was time to market them, it's gone full circle and I'm on the other side of the CPU creating news ads, filming and cutting TV commercials and videos, and making phone calls to annoy the press into including us in their little circles.

I suppose a lot of that comes from actually having the background to figure all that stuff out, but most importantly it's because every time I try to let someone take part of the job, they screw it up. It goes completely away from our concept. I WANT to let it go, but gads if someone would just do their JOB right I could . . .

Our first TV commercial the guys burned up an hour of videotape, and I kept telling them EXACTLY what we wanted, all I got was "Here try this, trust me, I do this for a living and I know what I'm doing." But they didn't. We wound up using 2 minutes of over an hour of video and I was lucky to get that.

And THEN - the salesman schedules us for all these STOOOOOpid time slots that have absolutely nothing to do with our product. I don't even WATCH TV. I wound up having to do *HIS* job too, bought a TV guide, reviewed what's on, and gave him my own schedule.

I know this is a bit off topic but it doesn't matter if it's your web work or advertising, while you **should** compartmentalize your work, let specialists do it, I just . . . can't. They screw it up. :-( I'm finding less and less people with pride in what they do.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

The new tasks I pull down the more fun it gets because each time I learn something new, and learn how to do it as well as possible.

So how do you find the time? :(

[rocknbil]

Well, therein lies the Achilles heel. Things take forever to get done, I make a lot less money, and I work longer and more thankless hours than I ever did with the mind-numbing salaried corporate position + benefits. So I guess it depends on what you want, I decided long ago that money Is Not My Answer. But it doesn't hurt . . .

[bobothecat]

I do the code, graphics, copy, marketing, etc... it's so much nicer being a one-man show after owning several compaines that had lots of employees... yuck :)