Comments on: What does a programmer have to barter with?

By: musingvirtual

musingvirtual — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:29:24 +0000

you’ve forgotten ActionScript. Many designers know a little, enough to get by, and not enough to do a lot.

By: Miles

Miles — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:07:56 +0000

Um. Money? Bartering doesn’t work, because not everything that we produce is either tangible, or easily divisible, as you’ve begun to show for developers. Just pay people for their time, it makes everything easier.

By: Jordan Lev

Jordan Lev — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:56:07 +0000

Perhaps you could get them set up on a content management system (if they’re not already familiar with one). CMS’s can be intimidating to newcomers (not always the best documentation on open source projects), but I’ve found that spending a few hours with a web designer can get them up to speed. I usually focus on how to install the code on a server (most designers are familiar with FTP), and how to interact with the templates (most designers are familiar with how these work, but need to know where to create/edit/save them in the CMS, and what the specific system’s flavor of tags are).

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By: Steve Webb

Steve Webb — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:05:10 +0000

I can whip out a website (no graphics, no fancy stuff) in a few hours to do something basic. This is how I contribute to projects. Just like graphic design is an iterative process, so is programming. I work with others that are well versed in PHP and SQL, but may need a special feature to crawl a website on demand and extract words from that web page (for example), so I’ll write a little function in php that they can call or something like that. Working together on a project, you can feel what each other’s strengths and weaknesses are, so you ask for help here and there and provide help here and there whenever needed. At least that’s what I’ve been experiencing in the past.

By: Keith G

Keith G — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:35:30 +0000

Backup strategies and implementation.

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:53:13 +0000

UI Design – You’ve got to be there when they design the UI so that you can give your input on what can and can’t be done easily. This is a great place to suggest interesting things you can do with the site and cms, and discourage stuff that would take so long as to make the project less profitable.

By: Maxwell

Maxwell — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:26:19 +0000

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By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:26:19 +0000

I have two small things that I do for designers that help quite a bit. The first is to help them standardize/clean up code that they write. As a programmer it’s easier for me to come up with re-usable code than a designer with less experience in that area. The second thing I do is play devil’s advocate on some of the user experience portion of the design, because that’s something fairly easy to learn and working together can result in better designs than one person can put together on their own.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:21:09 +0000

Protecting your Intellectual property (Licenses, patents, etc…) are really the only bargaining chips.