WordPress isn’t killing web design, the lack of creativity and is killing web design (and it’s holding the rest of us back). Content management solutions should be chosen based on the content strategy, not the other way around.

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But we are not just hired guns, knocking out a few tasks as quickly and efficiently as possible. We are creatives and strategists. We are problem solvers hired to figure out the best way to meet our clients’ goals.

Let’s start acting like it.

*slow clap*

Too often we end up designing pages that we know we can do in a particular way that’s dependent on such-and-such a CMS when really the constraints of that system should be thought of as challenges, not walls of some box that we have to think inside of.