I work at a place that has a clear separation between designers and developers.  We're a fairly new start-up and we're trying to figure out what would be the best workflow for our team.  We're a small company with a total of about 11 employees, three of which are designers (they deal with the HTML, CSS, some jQuery), and three developers primarily working with ASP.NET Web Forms. I am one of the developers and don't have a knack for design, but I am comfortable enough with CSS and jquery/Javascript to understand the mechanics and whatnot.So, currently we wait for the designers to provide us with HTML structure clobbered together with server-side includes, js, jquery, css, etc.Typically we try to work around their stuff and begrudgingly try to keep their structure roughly the same with the consequence of forcing us to have a lot of hacks in place to work with it.  Yes, this means using their Server-Side Includes mixed in with our .aspx pages, amongst other things that seem to go against the general asp.net web forms flow.There have been times when I have changed the includes into a user control and had their common HTML out in master pages, etc. All of which was consequently followed by a lot of barking from the design team.  Their main complaint being that master pages and user controls make their maintenance of the site more difficult.I can see their point of view, and I wouldn't like it either if people messed with my workflow either, which I guess I am doing so with them.I have tried several times to approach them about moving site structure that complements the asp.net web forms environment we programmers are working with, but every time the subject of working with master pages comes up, the design team throws a near tantrum.Our current approach is simply forcing us to put together a lot of hacks and work-arounds so that it gels with their design and frankly it's getting frustrating and just adding more unnecessary technical dept to our projects.My question is simply this: what workflow works best for you and your design team?  Do your designers know how to use master pages, etc.Is it unreasonable to have designers understand the mechanics of how master pages and user controls work, and in general how ASP.NET puts a page together?  (I don't feel this is an unreasonable expectation of them...)So, what do you guys think?
What workflow do you use with asp.net web forms development and your design department
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