Your Web Designer is like a Music Conductor

As a Web Designer, one of the first questions I am asked by potential clients is

"Why do I really need a Web Designer?"

and while this is a valid question, I have actually thought a fair amount on how to address this question.  The answer actually came from my roots in music.

Picture that your Website is a Symphony Hall and the viewer is a member of the audience for a nights performance.  The Symphony is of course made up of all the instruments you expect to find in a well laid out performance.  Every portion of the Symphony knows their expected duty and where their place is in the presentation of song to be performed, you have your percussion , Brass , woodwinds  sections of the performance, and one man brings them all together, he is the Conductor!

The Conductor keeps everyone in the symphony in focus, bringing the volumes of the performance up or down, controlling the speed and releasing the emotions enclosed in the notes on the page.  

A Web Designer works for you in very much the same way. The score being worked with is the information to be presented, Your Web Designer takes his or her knowledge of the different sections of they Symphony and brings them into an harmonious blend that when well presented allows the audience to enjoy the experience, and return for future performances.  

The sections of the Web Designer's Symphony may have been replaced with HTML, CSS, Javascript and other programming languages, but the finale presented to the public is one that comes out of hours of fine tuning the presentation for public consumption.