1. Moving sucks in the US.
  2. Some people seem to be under the impression that I’m trying to portray myself as a web designer, who seems to have the right to give bad criticism about their website - and disagree. Fiercely. By calling me names.

Lemme tellya sumtin’: I’m a developer (and my boss pays me to do just that: develop. I haven’t been laid off or demoted yet, so I must know what the fuck I’m doing, I suppose), and I never claimed to be a designer (in fact, on several occasions it’s the first thing I admit before explaining why I think something shouldn’t be done.)

But here’s the thing: just because I’m not a designer doesn’t mean I don’t have an eye for aesthetics, and when code is wrong (ugly, non-compliant, incorrect, bloated, crap like that), well, now… that has nothing to do with design - that’s the development part… the part I am well-versed and seasoned in. Yes, I do know what the fuck I’m talking about code-wise, but if I were an actual designer, d’ya think I’d stick with a slightly modified version of a ready-made WordPress template?

And just because you’re not pleased with the way my stuff looks (which doesn’t hurt me in the slightest, because I didn’t create it, myself), that doesn’t mean I don’t know how to make things work, or that my opinion on the use of certain “tools” isn’t valid.

Which is a nice segue for my next post, coming to a monitor near you soon:

Biggest Crimes In Web Design: People Who Use Microsoft Office To Create Web Pages Should Be Shot Dead.