Hello Web Developer, Goodbye Web Designer

Published 15 January 09 by Justin French

John Allsopp in The State of the Web survey results

The day of the web developer has well and truly arrived, with a significant majority of respondents describing themselves as “developers” rather than designers, or a combination of the two. 95% or more or respondents use JavaScript, and over 90% of their sites are database driven.

It’s about time! I can’t remember the last time I built a static website, and more to the point, the average user doesn’t give a shit how your site magically works. It’s just “on the internet”, and we, the web developers, are simply developing some more parts of the internet, like a property developer building some new apartments down the street.