This post is a long work in progress but…
On this site, you may hear us mentioning a product called flow. This product is our core platform, which powers website we develop on.
The code behind flow could be described as an MVC-like structure but some things we do are different.
Web design is very different from other mediums because half the time spent designing a website is wasted solving technical problems. For a start, a website on your screen might not look the same on someone elses. You might see a few small differences or in extreme cases the whole page can come out looking scrambled. The problem is there are so many differences between all the computers out there.
You probably dont notice this in your day to day browsing because web designers make allot of effort to get sites working on all the different browsers and computers use. Designers spend much of their time just trying to get their concept from paper to screen. Its not hard to imagine how this struggle leads to lazy design and corner cutting.
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