As a web designer, having HTML and CSS knowledge will sufficient enough to provide you with the best weapon in design world. Not only because these tools are truly gaining lots of popularity, but also because these tools will give you all it takes to be a professional designer in 2016. Here are why:
- HTML and CSS are Design Tools
As a matter of fact, HTML and CSS is not suitable to be used for programming matters since they aren’t really programming languages, therefore they don’t compile when there’s an error in your HTML or CSS. Moreover, your browser will automatically skip it or it will show what it thinks you meant and they don’t provide any function statements as they are best at styling and structuring content.
Besides, you will notice that HTML5 and CSS3 are great improvements over previous versions, especially for HTML5 specification which provides meaningful structure to web content; eliminating the need for ugly <DIV> tags everywhere.
- CSS3 Is Replacing JavaScript as the Language of Animation on the Web
Even though, HTML5 and CSS3 are programmed for design and not for programming, but some of the new stuff is starting to get kind of programming language. In fact, CSS animation is a great place to start which you can use it to level up your skills, although you don’t know a whole new language.
Moreover, CSS has become the first choice for the language of animation on the web since the death of flash and the power of CSS3 animation properties. In addition, animation and motion design are one of the things for designers to be working on right now.
- Wireframes with CSS are better than a Photoshop Mockup
If you have to face a condition where design details in the mockups need to be interpreted into code, CSS can be one of the solutions that bridge the communication between designers and developers. This has proven that CSS has a lot of success in explaining rough design to developers in understanding designer’s prototype.