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hi, I am a C# developer with very little design skills or patience. i want to build web applications, but ASP is too cumbersome for me, is there something easier and more lightweight, i.e. something where I can concentrate on coding, not designing web page?

Posted 26-Jun-15 14:00pm

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Updated 26-Jun-15 14:03pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-06-27T08:47:00

I don't think you are starting with right approach or attitude.

One can improve one's design skills. This is not easy but possible. Moreover, one can grow one's patience. You are doing different thing: you are not just admitting your poor patience, which would be a good first step, you are trying to use patience as excuse. Yes, you do. You are trying to get away with the low patience you think you have. No, it does not work.

Let's try to be logical: even if you can find "something easier and more lightweight", you are going to end up with the same ugly design, with all signs of lack of patience, only… more lightweight and easier. But trust me, you will get something much worse. All the tools helping to make Web design "automated", "visual", "not programming" actually make the results more heavy-weight. And low-quality.

Also, let me tell you: from real-life example of Web developers' work asking questions on this site and elsewhere, I can see that major problem is design, not implementation.

And I cannot agree with Solution 1. If you outsource Web design (just design part), you can put yourself in the position where you are forced to code the stupidities designed by others. I mean it, stupidities. In real life, this is what you get if you hand your work to an average outsource company. Yes, it is possible to hire a good designer or good design company, but it could be very expensive. More importantly, it can only work if you work tightly with the designer. And if you learn design by yourself, at least to be able to tell good from bad.

A word on your "concentrate on coding": you will never get anything good if you consider your work "coding". It is not coding, it is a creating process of software engineering. Only if you take your work as real engineering, but also as the real art and also as science, you can get good results.

—SA

Bruno Sprecher · Answer 2 · 2015-06-26T14:22:00

Solution 1

It seems, in your case the best is to outsource it.

Posted 26-Jun-15 14:22pm

Bruno Sprecher

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Jun-15 14:51pm

Bruno,

I cannot agree with this; and I explained why in Solution 2, please see.

However, I suspect that this is not a "real" advice, but rather a "demonstrative" reply which should carry the message: "you are showing the attitude which makes you incapable of Web development". If you meant something like that, I would agree, but only with one note: such attitude can be changes, and everyone deserves a chance. That's why I answered, and that's why I did not vote on your answer at all. (Someone else down-voted it.)

—SA

[no name] 27-Jun-15 14:59pm

Dear Sergey, no Problem, you can "down"-vote this answer, feel free. I'm aware it is not an answer at all. Anyway I put my small 5 to your answer.
Bruno

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Jun-15 15:05pm

Thank you, Bruno.
I know I can down-vote anything I want, but I want to be reasonable in all cases. In this case, I found it useful to explain myself, but such explanations are neither "default" or "required".
—SA