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A web designer, whatever her gender, is a dude who makes websites, including the design. The programmers finally were able to do that too when frameworks aka bootstrap did the design for them. That’s why all corporate websites look the same and nowadays the self employed genders can get design and programming from the WordPress so the majority of their sites looks like that too or they can hire someone who can’t program or design but knows how to put the text and the images into WordPress or joomla and if the favicon of the result is custom they are above average. Real web designers are incredibly rare and they don’t do tutorials. Even Rachel Andrews or Jen Simmons, who are great web designers don’t fully qualify. Designing and typing into a computer are just too far apart. All tutorials are from YouTube professionals and they always include a framework because web developers can’t do design, they ‘build’ websites from components. And here’s the thing, the dev parts of a site can be formalized (thank you thank you thank you Andy) while the design aspect cannot. So designers can now do real web design, web developers can disassociate their opinions from their employer, Andy can give awesome key notes and companies can hire companies to get their flavor of bootreact on rails or whathaveyou. All webdev sucks but Webdesign for the small web sucks less.



> is a dude who makes websites

"dude": a man; a guy (from Oxford Languages)


Personally, I subscribe to the inclusive, Good Burger, definition of dude.

I’m a dude, he’s a dude, she’s a dude, ‘cause we’re all dudes, hey.


I'm with you Bro!




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