When a smoke and mirrors design prototype turns into "so we can go live tomorrow with that then, I'll send out the press release"
Designers Inhouse
Is this you? A web designer (maybe the web designer) employed by a non-design company. High-profile redesigns and flashy product launches? Not bloody likely. More like mind-numbing updates to a manually maintained company phone-list. And it has to work in Netscape 4. Maybe it's 50,000 variations on the same banner ad, using those same 2 corporate colours...the hex codes are tattooed inside your eyelids.
Sometimes you wish there was somebody else who actually understood what it was you do all day. Or that you could convince the marketing guy that making the logo flash every three seconds is not the best 'branding solution' for the website.
I'm an inhouse webdesigner. I know there is a lot of people out there like me, but I don't know any of you. Some of us have job titles like web designer / sysadmin / photocopy repair / sink unblocker. Some of us fix the website because nobody else understands what right-clicking means.
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