Careers In Website Design
The era of technology has bought into the open jobs that were never in being before. With the ever increasing rise in technology we will see a lot more careers in the field of web designing. But to name a few common and essential positions and job titles that are in existence today, include that of website designers, web programmers, developers and project managers.
Website Designers - A web designer is basically one who designs the main boundary of the web page. He or she is responsible for the colors, text size and type, choosing and placing appropriate pictures in the web page. The designer is an artist. The job requires one to be creative with colors as choosing suitable colors is very important. Colors generally speak of the personality of a company or an individual. Light and pleasant colors are usually pleasant to the eye and are usually used in places where a lot of reading is involved. Website designers usually learn different software such as Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage, Photoshop, and Illustrator. If you want to enter the website design career as a designer then the prerequisite of the job would be that one should be fairly familiar with these programs.
Website Programmers/Developers - At the back the artistic values of the designer lies the brainwork of a programmer or developer whose key job is to make the website more easier to use and to provide services such as e-commerce, online payments, catalogues and sites that need to be driven with a database.
Instead of using programs that use HTML the developers and programmers use programs such as PHP, ASP, Java, Perl, XML, Cold Fusion and other software that have artificial intelligence built into them. Today web developers and programmers play an important part in web designing.
Without them sites such as Hotmail, Yahoo, Google and E-bay would seize to exist. The work that goes on in searching for the different Booleans that are entered in the search box of Google and other search engines, the authorizing of mail passwords on the various free email sites and the various processes that are done behind the scenes on e-commerce sites such as verifying credit card numbers and taking down orders is all possible only because of these programmers and developers.
Project Managers - No matter how good the website designers and the developers may be you still need a person to look over it all. The person who is responsible for this position sets the deadline for the various drafts and final presentations, budgeting and handles most of the problems that come along with a project. Project Managers ensure the client that everything is ok and that the project is going to be delivered on time. Part of the job description is also to make sure that everything is ‘A-Okay’. One of the qualities that a Project Manager should have is to ensure that the three C’s are being maintained within the programmers, developers and the designers. The three C’s being Communication, Coordination and Cooperation.
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