A good web desginer

[DesignerRicky]

I wouldnt say experiance too much.
Becuase you can have as much experiance, and still give off designs that are not apealing. I would say fresh minds now days.

[alouette]

A design that appeals to one may not appeal to another. The key to being a good web designer is the ability to listen to your client, put yourself in his/her shoes and give them what they want with a little extra pizazz so they'll be extra happy!

[water2filter]

Good web designer must have the creative idea,and can orgnize the content in very easily-visit way. he must understand HTML,CSS,and SEO,and also some basic script skill. he must have make the site clean and visitable.

[seo-neon]

a good creative designer must have a wide imagination to make a site more unique and also, they must have a passion on what he do... web designing, for me, i consider it as an art... i really like if, mixing all aspects in web designing in one site...

[prasad]

I think they should be able to understand the clients requirements.

[nacworld]

I find it hard to find someone doing good service for reasonable prices, lots of them charge really high prices... and those who do it a little cheaper webpage is also cheap, I started to learn to do it myself because don't have budget for it... try to find someone designing in web 2.0 quality

[ok0510]

Someone can work hard, but if they have no talent in the area of design it won't do them much good. Mix the two together and you've got mad skilz.
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[sitetutor]

Originally Posted by kristeejo

Talent.

Someone can work hard, but if they have no talent in the area of design it won't do them much good. Mix the two together and you've got mad skilz.

Absolutely. You can train anything, but can't train talent and creativity. Ideas are what makes the world go round. I know so many programmers and designers who don't have that "special something" and their work will always be so so regardless of their technical skills.

[etch]

for me , i think its experience + talent ,, coz talent makes the designer more creative .. lol what's the difference between 2 designers , its how they r experienced and how each of them is creative ..
thats just for me ..

[jkpatchala@gmail.com]

Not leaving in the middle.

[rginfotech]

Hi,

Always a Experience Web designer would be Good, But with advance tech .

[sweetkendi]

For me, a good web designer should have a passion to his work, creativity, always has a fresh minds, organized, experienced, and hardworking.

[nepalsites]

good designer in a way is someone who know their client's taste.

[terrence]

The one who understands what his/her client wants and still able to establish his/her own idea...

[Turbine]

This thread got my antennae perked, seeing as how I work directly with web development (I can't bare to call it "Webdesign" after I've developed such a stigma for the word.) and graphics development. I'd like to chime in.

What is a good web developer?

A good web developer is not just a web designer. He is a graphics artist, sometimes a professional or amateur coder, runs code diagnostics, and typically nowadays trained in flash and sometimes AJAX.

A true webdesigner isn't someone who just "Designs pages" but has such a wide range of talents because with a complete "Talent set" can you, by yourself, really develop an impressive page. Since this is "What makes a good webdesigner?" and not "What makes a good web development team?" I'll take the angle that we're talking about one single person.

Now, I will address a couple of posts I saw about "Experience leads to conformity and bland design" (I'm paraphrasing) and I'll have to completely disagree. It is only when someone with experience becomes lazy and/or bored and uninspired by their work do they start to repeat their old habits, start producing repetitive work, and continually stay "inside the box". Experience is the cornerstone of a developer.

If you take someone who has 1 month of experience in the industry, and take someone who is 5 years in, stand them side by side, same motivation, same levels of output and skill, and we're only talking about experience, the person with 5 years in to the gig will have a large understanding of the industry, has the client background to know how to communicate and work with what a client wants. Most of the time the hardest part of being a designer is decoding what the client is saying into functional aspects of a page, and that is something that only comes with experience.

While the only thing a 1 month designer has going for him or her is the fact they are ignorant to the industry and are willing (Out of ignorance. Remember, ignorance is NOT a bad word, it is simply a lack.) to "step outside the box" and most of the time these newer developers are stuck "in the box" because they simply don't know how to step outside of it. Be it lack of skill, or trying to copy a developed site that they thought looked good.

That's my personal take. Everyone has different opinions, and mine fits into the "different" category by nature.

Now, what makes a good designer?

Someone who is capable of taking his various skills of web technologies (And they had better be various and vast! Nobody JUST designs in HTML anymore! You better know photoshop, kiddo!) and rolling them into one complete package, but most importantly, be able to offer this package in a manner that is both friendly and effective for the client. The big issue is most of the best developers I've worked with needed a middle man because of the lack in social skills.

Let's face it, some of the brightest minds in the world are also the same minds that probably couldn't network properly in the real world to save their life! So, what a good developer is, to me: An experienced, widely-skilled, and socially capable sales person who can deliver product in a timely fashion with complete function and be able to meet specific deadlines.

-Turbine

[nancy123]

Good designer have good knowledge of all this Position , Color ,Contrast,,Size ,Design Elements .Its a basic of Art which is very important. After that you have basic knowledge of Technical skill like photo shop, Corol Draw ,HTML, CSS.