if you run a tech group and you have a web developer, PLEASE, PLEASE GET HIM A DESIGNER TO WORK WITH.

The problem with leaving a programmer to do the design as well is PROGRAMMERS AREN’T ARTISTS (usually).

What’s worse is, SOME PROGRAMMERS THINK THEY’RE ARTISTS.

A programmer that thinks he’s a capable artist but really isn’t will waste HOURS of your companies time trying to get the “design” aspect down right. He’ll kludge, he’ll photoshop, he’ll mishmash things around and in the end you’ll have something that still looks like a draft.

While in HALF the time a real designer could come up with final polished product that you could actually use.

Why don’t you just leave the programmer to do the programming, and hire a designer to do the design?? holy crap.