Possible Duplicate:
Is a Front-End Web Developer a “Programmer”?
Is it accurate to classify web designers as programmers? Should they be classified as such?
Tell me more
×
Programmers Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for
professional programmers interested in conceptual questions about software development. It's 100% free, no registration required.
|
|
||||
|
marked as duplicate by Glenn Nelson, ChrisF♦ Mar 18 '12 at 23:28
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
|
No, web designers aren't necessarily programmers. Web developers on the other hand, designers or not, are arguably (and usually) programmers, irrefutably so if they use any server-side language or a scripting language. |
|||
|
|
|
Well it depends. If the web designer is strictly a designer, working within Photoshop, than they are not a programmer. If they code their designs in HTML & CSS, I'd still say they aren't a programmer or even a web developer. If they know how to write JavaScript and use it for adding interactivity to their designs, than you could consider them a programmer, but not a web developer. If they can write PHP and code their designs in HTML + CSS, I'd say they are a programmer, but not necessarily a web developer (Depends on their understanding of various other topics related to programming). |
|||
|
|
