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Why do so many programmers always have ugly af websites? haha!
This gets me every time I see it. :)
 
They know programming, not design. :p At least from my experience.
 
Because they don't have time for themself , they only build websites for clients...
 
You never know they can make a site rank even faster? Since they are programmers who knows got " secret code to hack make their site rank super fast by Google " back end despite website looks ugly etc
I do see ugly , slow loading sites rank on first page man
I got check their traffic, per day is a lot
 
Why do so many programmers always have ugly af websites? haha!
This gets me every time I see it. :)

Same reasons writers have grammatical errors in their own sales material or graphic designers have a typo in designs = Lazy, stupid or both.
 
Why do so many programmers always have ugly af websites? haha!
This gets me every time I see it. :)

I would relate a programmer's website to a mechanic's vehicle.. If anyone knows a mechanic or "technician" as we call them nowadays. They would often see that their vehicles are death traps that are barely held together.

The point is, when people are skilled and have passion, they often know what they can get away with and be successful. They save all the fancy things for their customers and friends and do the bare minimum for themselves. It's part humility and part lazy. Who wants to work on their own things after working on other peoples things all day?

HAHAHA.
 
Yeah, I'm going to go with "lazy" in the case of programmers, as we know they're at least smart enough to explain human thoughts to dumb computers.
 
They know programming, not design. :p At least from my experience.
My exact problem.
Not like I don't know how to do css/less or whatever, but i lack ideas . :weep:
 
My exact problem.
Not like I don't know how to do css/less or whatever, but i lack ideas . :weep:
As a programmer, you've already got to be creative as heck.
Think of all the shit you do with a blank page of digital paper.
You're literally creating entire interactive worlds for your users.

You're writing out all the rules they must follow and in the case that they don't, you're even providing the exception handling.
You create choices for people and tiers of future results that solely depend on user input.
You create the order in which most of this happens. You build things people never knew needed to be built.
You make impossibilities possible. Programmers are literally the kings and queens of ideas.

Every piece of software is nothing more than a collection and arrangement of ideas.

If you can understand nested for loops and three-dimensional arrays, then you can very easily learn to float some shit across the screen and set background images and font weights. lol
Working with classes in HTML/CSS is a heck of a lot easier than working with classes in C++. In HTML/CSS, the class rules are already set.

It's laziness. :P
 
Because most people are just specified in one skill. I know dozens of guys who can code you a perfect app. Normally they could earn millions, but except for coding, they don't know anything else. No marketing skills, no writing skills, no social skills, no creativity. The more skills and knowledge you can obtain, the easier it will be for you as an entrepreneur/self-employee.
 
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My close friend have website that look like shit, this website is his personal CV. 11 years ago this guy was working in Google and he was aleady senior dev or software architect.
So why he have ugly website?
Maybe because he dont have to prove anyone his skills.
Maybe because he every week get $20k/month job offers.
Maybe because he is minimalist and he wants to filter out people who look for silly design instead of facts.

Nice design can help if you look for cliets, if not design is not important at all.
 
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Nice design can help if you look for clients, if not design is not important at all.
I can get behind this notion. I think a lot of programmers do feel that design is not always that important.
Well said.
 
If it's a standard website might as well use a nice looking template instead of reinventing the wheel imo. You can always change it enough to look "unique". Programming should be reserved for application development, architecture, etc..
 
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