May I just say, I love website design and development. I've been designing print marketing for over 20-years, and website design for about 7 or more years. When I started out designing for the Web, I only designed the website template and art directed the development process by using one of my developers. Over time, I picked up a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, PHP (okay, now I'm showing off). Most of the sites I do today I design and develop myself. If the site requires a lot of custom database development and a significant budget, I still have my network of techno-savvy developers to bring to the table. By developing my own sites, I've noticed each day I'm faced with a new challenge to get something to work the way it's supposed to work.
Web development is much different than print design and production. Print production rules are straight-forward and they do what you tell it to do. Web development requires a lot more rules and everyone needs to play along, or it won't work properly. But that's when the mystery begins for me. I enjoy the challenge of a good problem to be solved. This shouldn't come as a surprise because, designers have been solving problems forever.
Solving the day-to-day web development challenges results in a lot of rewarding pats on the back, whereas design problem-solving is a rewarding process toward reaching a strategic objective. The feathers in my cap as a result of successful design initiatives are extremely satisfying, but I also enjoy the smaller pats on the back.
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