Best regards to all. Of course web design is art. http://www.template-online.com it is a new progect of our team. Look it please.

I am a traditional artist. I can draw or paint a picuture that will make you think that you are actually there. I am also a seamstress. I like to make dolls and quilts and of course clothing at times too. There are some who think that dollmaking or making quilts is not an art. I believe that it is one of the purer forms of art combining skill, knowlege, vision, technique, and talent. To build a website, one needs most of those things as well plus a brain full of codes.

Just as a doll or quilt can be quite beautiful but with shoddy craftmanship at the same time, so can a website. If it is all glitter and glitz, it won't be functional. A well made website requires more than just good looks but also functionally. If it is pretty but goes no where, what is the point of having one. . . . something I am constantly harping about when I go to a site and can't find a site map or a link to a page that someone on the phone has told me is there. Websites that are well maintained require a lot more art than any picture that I will ever paint. Tell those who say that what you do isn't art to go soak their heads in turpintine because they now accept Andy Warhol's works as art and the works of Peter Maxx and lately even old can labels from peaches and beans are being called art and sold at outrageous prices. I think that your friends are just jealous cuz you are smarter than they are. Then in a few years or next week, charge them an outrageous amount to design their website where they want to pedal their art. If they sell any of it, they will need you to come back time and time again to "fix" their websites and click your buttons and charge them megabucks again!

Web design is definitely art and as with every form of art there are people who will criticize it. Most web designer's and graphic designer's have some sense of art to begin with. I personally have always loved art and see it everyday in nature and in my surroundings. I consider web design to fall more in the category of digital art. A web designer is faced with the same obstacle’s any conventional artist is only more. Pixel perfect web design takes time and consideration of different browser platforms. Typography is incorporated to blend with the theme of a site. If web design is not art then I don’t know what is.


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Hand coding your HTML (instead of using a wysiwyg program) is definitely an art.