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Entries published on May 31, 2006

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Let’s talk about frameworks, designer edition

Yesterday we got a brief overview of the new generation of web development frameworks and a general idea of why people are so excited about them; today let’s dive in and see what frameworks can do for the designers in the audience.

You don’t have to do (much) programming

This is probably the biggest factor I’ve seen drawing design-oriented people to frameworks. There are plenty of people out there who’ve mastered HTML and CSS, but couldn’t program their way out of a paper bag. And a significant number of designers also have some skill with JavaScript — which is a programming language, no matter what some people may tell you — and may even have dabbled with a PHP tutorial or two, or fiddled with a Wordpress plugin. These folks can do a little bit of programming, but not much.

For people in this situation a framework can be a great thing, …

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