Content Management

Web development has gone through some significant changes over the last 20 years. I remember when I started working with web development in the 90s that most of the people that I knew that became web developers fell into two categories.

Category 1: Graphic Designers who learned HTML, ASP, etc

Category 2: Programmers who learned how to use graphics programs like Photoshop.

More often than not, these are mutually exclusive skill sets. More often than not, you can learn to be proficient at both, but not spectacular at both. There are some people that can truly be very good at both, but a programmer uses logic to design and a designer uses creativity to design. Neither is bad... just often are mutually exclusive skill sets.

Because of this divide in skill sets, the last few years has seen a turn in how web sites are developed. Specialization has become key to the modern website. Graphic Designers focus on their core competency and Programmers focus on their core competency. This is great because now you can get spectacular design and competent programming (although I still think that the majority of the graphic designers that are out there still think that designing for web interaction is the same as designing for static media).

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