Hello, Steemians!

If you follow me already, you might know that I design websites. Well- yeah. I design websites. I haven't yet coded one. I don't think you need to be able to code and program to be a good web designer. This is why I still consider web-building platforms such as Weebly and Wix very valuable. They provide designers with the capability and functions needed to make a website look good.... and that's what designers do. So I don't think platforms like this should be overlooked.

I feel like there has been an everlasting debate between designers and programmers.

I think a lot of programmers are so focused in the numbers and code that a lot of designers feel like they don't spend as much time on the aesthetic aspects of a site as they do the functional aspects.

Aannnd... I think a lot of designers are so focused on the aesthetic aspects of a website that a lot of programmers feel like they aren't that original at what they do because they don't write the code themselves.

Alas, I think there is a balance to be reached here.

And that's my specialty, balancing (I'm a Libra) LOL.

I don't think either is wrong. One shouldn't be considered better, or more involved than the other. They are just very very different areas of expertise.

I have always been more on the designers side of this (obviously). I feel like you don't need to know how to write code to make things look good, and platforms like Weebly and Wix have nice functions you can build right into a site without needing to know how to code. But why is this? Because coders have written those functions for us already.

I think most times coders and designers don't work well together working on the same project because coders are more focused on function and designers are more focused on looks. Well, platforms like Weebly and Wix help integrate these two ideas by giving designers pre-written functions to add to the aesthetic portion. And I work well with this! It makes it easy for me to go in, and change something around until it functions well and looks good (plus, without messing with the code!)

I don't think using platforms like Weebly and Wix make you an amateur designer, either. Just because they make it easy for every day people to use, doesn't mean you can't get really, really good at it. There's always room to improve. If you're a designer, you design. I wouldn't consider a designer amateur because they don't know how to code.

But, nonetheless, if you are building websites coding is going to come into it somewhere, whether you write it yourself or adapt a pre-existing template.

I design websites, but since there's always room to learn and expand your knowledge, I am taking a course to learn the basics of building a website with HTML. I figure, even if I don't write all of my websites' codes from scratch, it will give me the knowledge to edit pre-existing code if I need to, to make it more original and whatnot. But, this class is teaching me to write a whole website from scratch, so we will see how that goes! Plus, it fascinates me so I enjoy learning about it.

So, I have written my first functional HTML code!!!