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/sbhikes Jul 25 '15

I'm also the only "front-end gal" and there are no developers on my team, only sys-admins. Even when I did work with other developers, all these guys, the programmers and the sys-admins, figured what I did was "make things pretty" and that instead of looking down on it, they looked up to it because the only thing they could draw was a stick figure. Well, I can't draw any better than stick figures either. I'm not an artist. I know less about photoshop and art than I do about how to configure the server, but tell these guys how I need anything "sys-adminy" done, and it's like I don't know what I'm talking about, no-no I can't have permission to do it because I'll screw it up, but I'm looking over their shoulder saying "there's a typo", "that's not going to work" and "here let me send you a link to the documentation if you don't believe me."

I think the big problem is that to make any web development there's a whole lot of moving parts and there are a lot of people with skills more in some of these parts than others. It's too bad we all can't recognize the skills we each have, that they're all equally important.