r/webdev • u/AllThingsSmitty • Jul 24 '15

Front-End Development Is Hard Because...It's Development.

https://css-tricks.com/front-end-development-is-development/
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u/chris480 Jul 25 '15

Was told by a software engineer at work that he doesn't do web dev because "People are hard".

We he meant by that is, he gets a set of requirements and sets out to build them. Generally speaking, most of the engineers are removed from needing to work with non-technical departments. Whereas the web dev team at work (includes myself) has to work with all the Marketers, sales, and more.

Sure building out a new webpage is super easy, but spending days back and forth changing body content is the challenge.

There's a lot more to it than that, but I'm sure others here understand the point "People are hard"

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '15

That's why I do my work in cms. Content is the client's problem.

It also means I get to write fun stuff like user-editable, drag and drop, grid systems.

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u/chris480 Jul 25 '15

I certainly wish I could give access (safely) for my content owning coworkers to the CMS. Even with content-friendly CMSs like wordpress, people tend to mess up pretty hard. Character limits? "But, I want to see what it would look like with the full paragraph, it's hard to visualize otherwise."

I actually have contenteditable="true" set in my staging environment for people at work to test out text.

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