Re:More than one side to this one... (Score 1)

Agreed on all counts that a return to basic skills will improve the web for everyone. We want functional, maintainable, highly responsive websites and for this to happen the architecture and system design must be put in place. Just slapping together a solution of "good enough" does not scale and results in wasted effort and reorganization later. Instead of rushing to implement poor solutions, some consideration and planning needs to be undertaken. We have a lot of thoughtful guidance for this so there is no excuse for bad design that ends up frustrating users and failing to achieve business objectives. We can all do better than this but it requires educating project teams first and showing why the tried and true approaches are so important.