Time Breakdown of modern Web Design
This pie chart will prove as a nice little break from your Thursday grind. I was forwarded this design break down earlier this morning and found it hilarious! I personally am frustrated by the “time spent actually designing anything” – sad but true in this rapid development world we are working in.
Unknown Author — but damn hilarious!
Look at all of the time spent fixing the site or ensuring it is properly formed – as opposed strategy and design. I know this is a joke, but for many of the folks new to the industry and for those of us who can remember way back when – this chart does have a little truth to it!
But isn’t all of the frustration what makes this job so much fun? Come on you, you know it does. Remember my post on “Why web developers love Internet Explorer”. If everyone becomes compliant and IE isn’t such a headache, are we going to have anything left to talk about (bitch about)?
- December 7th, 2006
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ROFL SO TRUE!!!!!
ha, nice
I certainly apperciate that. Fucking IE sent me into such rages in my web dev days…
HA HA!!! I love the passion that IE brings out of people — I am going to miss it the day they become more compliant
That’s great. Although I would remove the “giving up and using tables” section and fill it in with the Swearing/IE/Bill Gates-Death-Wish categories :P
Yeah, i thought some people would not be able to “relate” to the ‘tables’ remark — but I remember when i was first learning [insert joke about me still learning here] and boy did I want use tables in the worst way.
I think the only thing keeping me from sneaking a table or two in was my overly critical co-workers who lived for the moment they could laugh at my mark-up.
Thanks John!
no matter how frustrating, it should never come to settling for a tabled build.
box scores for a sports site? tables, OK.
entire site … wait, i think i just threw up in my mouth a little.
It’s a little ironic for me that I have more problems with IE6 (and older) now that I’m into CSS layouts, as opposed when I was doing (gasp!) nested tables. Not that I’m complaining: I have that 15% or so freedom to swear. :)
So is “fucking” really a part of the Internet Explorer trademark?
It still does for me. I’m working on a design that I’ve done in the past. Using an exact duplicate of the code from the previous project, you’d think that it’d work without tweaking. Ha, no. The same code has two different effects on Internet Explorer. There’s got to be something small that I’m missing.
Mozilla is free. It isn’t dead-from-neglect, like IE. Just put up a banner page telling people they need to upgrade. IE hasn’t been even half-way decent since Netscape 6.
HA! Could you imagine — just putting a big redirect up for anyone with an outdated browser that says “you need to upgrade yourself before using the internet”.
Very good! Tableless design is actually really easy once you get your head around it. Apart from that, spot on! I consider myself a designer but it’s such a small percentage of my day!
My point was that there’s no reason to still be using IE. You know and I know that the only reason people use it at all is because it still ships with Windows, and the only reason it still ships with Windows is that Ballmer hasn’t gotten around to reassigning the browser group.
I use a mac so only use Internet Explorer to make sure my web sites look halfway decent to the majority of web users. I have to say though that I know people who use IE because they honestly prefer it. That’s no excuse, I know ;-) but i believe in accommodating all users as much as possible. Choice is a good thing and it’s only because IE is there that Firefox puts up such a great fight.
That image is so on-point, I may have to print that out for my desk.
I’ve got a copy up as well! You can get the larger image here
“I use a mac so only use” Me, too, at least at home. For my money, I like Mozilla a little better than Safari but I use both.
hah thanks
Ever so true! Specially the part with IE lol.
Very accurate. However, for myself, the region representing time spent swearing would be much larger. ;)
Nice work. Thanks for the laugh.
No problem — I think I’ve heard some of that swearing from my co-workers behind me.
“Time spent looking for that one extra space character in the Javascript that Fire Fox is throwing a wobbly over.”
HAHA Oh my god that’s awesome! In school I remember all of this. This pie chart is amazing and so funny. I can also relate to swearing, and hating bill gates.
Also on a serious note, I agree with the poster above who talked about why people still use IE. I would add to his idea that it ships with Windows, to also include people that are common and not crazy like us web designers, people don’t know Mozilla or Safari. I introduce both to my friends until they tell me to shutup.
Great post.
“Time spent looking for that one extra space character in the Javascript that Fire Fox is throwing a wobbly over.”
HAHA Oh my god that’s awesome! In school I remember all of this. This pie chart is amazing and so funny. I can also relate to swearing, and hating bill gates.
Also on a serious note, I agree with the poster above who talked about why people still use IE. I would add to his idea that it ships with Windows, to also include people that are common and not crazy like us web designers, people don’t know Mozilla or Safari. I introduce both to my friends until they tell me to shutup.
Great post. tell me to shutup.
Great post.
HAHA, WOW I love that, I am saving this :) Good way to end the evening. Have a good one guys and gals.
I’ve been swearing A LOT lately…sigh
Oh yeah, the IE7 is still a shit.. I hope someday bill gates wake up and go to microsoft and say, we now will go Gecko engine =P
Marco –> HA HA! Good luck, I’ll buy you a beer when that happens — hell, I will buy you all a beer when that happens.
LOL Absolutly spot on! haha good one :))
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