At first i thought the title was referring to backend work, or perhaps just jQuery and i completely agreed-- i wouldn't expect a programmer to be great at design either.
But it turns out that this blogger doesn't expect designers to actually make their designs into something tangible. It seems positively ludicrous to me that any designer that is designing for the web would think that not knowing HTML/CSS, and therefore putting out an unfinished product is acceptable. It's almost insulting-- learning HTML and CSS takes a month at most, so why won't this designer learn it?
Building a design for a web page without actually writing the HTML+CSS for it is being a print designer and expecting the client to finish the job.
People are different. What takes you a month could take years to others. Don't assume that we have equal skills and talent. If you can learn how to write markup in a month... great! Good for you. :)
Other designers, are still doing great, without knowing how to code. ;)
But it turns out that this blogger doesn't expect designers to actually make their designs into something tangible. It seems positively ludicrous to me that any designer that is designing for the web would think that not knowing HTML/CSS, and therefore putting out an unfinished product is acceptable. It's almost insulting-- learning HTML and CSS takes a month at most, so why won't this designer learn it?
Building a design for a web page without actually writing the HTML+CSS for it is being a print designer and expecting the client to finish the job.