Sadly this summary has no information at all, provides no description of the issue to be discussed, and provides no content other than links to other sources. Perhaps the submission could have contained:

- A description of the issue at hand
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I have been a member of this website for years, and while I am as guilty of not reading the article(s) as the cliche suggest of most readers, I still do so if the summary has some, any, information as to why I should. This summary provides no context whatsoever to evaluate the article's worth nor describes in any way it's content.

Interesting, you've misinterpreted me I think. I'm not sure I said it was a rote task; I said it wasn't web design. I didn't intend to put web production people "below" anyone. They have a very specific skill, a valuable one, that isn't the same skill that web designers have.

In many roles and organizations these may very well be the same people. In my organization, they are typically not as it's hard to find people who are experts at both tasks. The designers produce Photoshop documents of the web page, the producers optimize, slice, and produce HTML and potentially some UI effects.

So while I agree that you could call them designers in some sense (the individuals I know who do this certainly are creative) that muddies the waters a bit when there are people who are Web Designers who don't do what they do. The value is in both roles, and some people, again, fill both roles. But they are nonetheless fundamentally different tasks.