Readers Respond: What do you hate about Web Developers

Web developers are the programmers on a website team. They focus on the details of how the site works and functions and often forget about the aesthetics of a site. But in this quest, they can be very annoying for their co-workers to work with. Find out what annoys other people about Web developers and share your pet peeves about them here.

Feel free to post here even if you are a Web designer yourself. But if you want to share annoyances about the people who program your website or build the HTML, please use the What do you hate about Web Developers page instead.

The future of web design is design

For those of you who have no vision, I'll let you in on a little secret: the future of web design is design - d.e.s.i.g.n. - that does not mean web coding; it means web design; it means graphic design, not programming. If you're a programmer, program, build a database that fits in with my design, or build a form that I can import into a design program, something i can change without knowing all about tags or code. I'm sick of code. It has nothing to do with the creative process. It's there for people who are into data - probably .001% of artists (there ARE exceptions, like Tufte). And guess what, if you are from a software company like Adobe and you're reading this, here's a the deal: if you don't give us this, some smaller, more flexible, more worthy and hungrier group of heads will and you will be left behind, so sort it out now!

—Guest Polomo