Where do you draw the line between designer and developer?

As web 2.0 applications get more and more mature, the roles of web designers, web developers and web application developers become more and more blurry.

Years ago, web designers simply design web sites. They aren’t very different from traditional print designers. Sure, some of them might not only do the design, but also code up their designs in HTML. But a lot of times, web designers are only responsible for the visual designs, and they pass on their work to web developers to convert the visuals into actual web pages. Back then, there wasn’t even much of a term as “web application developer” — what is a web application in 1998? A form mail script? A guestbook? Nobody would do that for a living. Let’s rephrase that — you won’t make a living doing that.

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