What are they teaching us?
When you have 5 minutes take a look at Vega School’s website. You can argue good design till you’re blue in the face but there’s only one way to write good code. Unfortunately Vega’s “Do as I say, not as I do” attitude won’t stand up here.
bgcolor, font, align and other deprecated tags are rife through out this newly designed site and I?m not even going to start with the accessibility issues. Who did they use to build this site? I hope this isn’t an indication of coding standard of their students!
Really, if this institution can’t even create basic, (and I really mean basic) compliant code then who are they to teach the web developers and designers of tomorrow?
http://www.vegaschool.com
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December 6th, 2005 at 2:35 pm
Unfortunately, I think Vega suffers (or not, depending on whether you think standards are important) from designamitus. The school is mainly oriented towards brand development and traditional “advertising” goals - an industry which is heavily biased towards gaining impact from the visuals and “graphic design” aspects of web design, without much regard for the technical stuff. They’re advertisers, if you want to see it that way… Take the Construction New Media Awards as an example, 99% of the award winners are badly coded flash entries. Entries that look good though, which is their main goal…
I agree with you though, I don’t think brand/advertising schools (or most agencies for that matter) get the web at all, not even close. It’s all about the Loeries, baby!
December 13th, 2005 at 3:47 pm
You make a good point, and your right of course. Design schools are out to teach design. Maybe we should start a coding school