difference between web designer and coder?

Question

What in the simplest terms is the difference between a web designer and coder

Answer 1

A web designer is an artist, like a fashion designer. He does not know anything about computers.
A coder is a professional programmer.
Everyone calls himself (herself) a "web designer", because they can make "nice pages". They do not need other knowledge than artistic knowledge and some front-end program such as Dreamweaver.
The coder takes the crap prepared by the designers and re-write the code in a proper language and add functionality.
There are 100 web-designers for 1 coder.
Out of 1000 pages on the web, only 1 or two have been designed by coders... and work properly.
The pitty is that we only see the "beauty" of a page, and that is what customers pay for. But the real work is made by coders.

Answer 2

A web Designer is usually responsible for the look of a site, where as a coder will be doing the code which makes it work, depending on the complexity of the site this could all be done by the same person or a team of people.

Answer 3

Web designers do stuff that coders then have to fix because web designers don't understand coding enough to know how to design their pages.

Answer 4

It is same as implementing your visualization thn your logic..

Web designer can visualize ideas & can give those details to coder who will implement logics to get overall thing working..

Simple Example is Yahoo pages what you see are WebDesigner's effort.. While to make these page dynamic & to post ,, get content properly is logic of coder...

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Answer 5

a web designer draws the pictures.

a coder then makes the cool bits (search engines, shopping carts, etc).

Answer 6

Designer know about design, interactions, and usability. css.

coders know about programming, security databases