Tips to Consider if you are a developer and designer

This concise list is simple on its face, but the amazing amount of truth that it invokes is worth the read. I have worked with great developers who couldn't, or wouldn't, design anything, preferring that someone with those skills do it. There are others that thought that a submit button and default Times were all anyone ever needed. Nope. Design counts big time. However, good design and bad code makes for an equally sad marriage.

Wake Up Later: Freelance Blog + Passive Income: "An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Speaking as a developer who spent his university years studying among other developers, I can safely say that programmers are not designers. Thankfully, we were graded back then for having reusable code and proper OO methodology -- never for our aesthetics. But nowadays, one of the greatest assets a developer can have is a keen understanding of design.

Now I understand that a programmer may never need to know anything about design (or for that matter, a designer doesn't ever need to program). But the truth is, every programmer has personal projects, frugal clients, or management roles that require design. Furthermore, I can say that often, a freelancer's greatest asset in pitching potential clients is their keen understanding of the entire website building process. So coming from someone who studied as a developer but now also does design (or at least attempts to), here are 8 mistakes I've either heard or made myself."