Your job is to create the visual and functional parts of the website, including:
-planning, designing and coding the page to be user friendly and to appeal to others.
-working with clients to know what they want, to plan the site’s structure and layout
– and create the visuals like color schemes and typography
Starting off the job you could be making £20,000 a year and more as you get experienced you can be making £60,000 a year
What it’s like
A web designer built the website’s looks and its functions for clients. some developers work on software or databases that help the website function, you might hear this called the ‘back end’, this is because its the part users cannot see. back end developers program the user interface and other visual aspects of web pages. you’d specialize in either of these or work in both areas, doing both, you would need a broader range of skills for that. here are a few of the things you could do:
- create a secure online shopping website
- develop a virtual learning environment for a college
- set up a company intranet for staff
What you will be doing
- Talking to clients about their ideas
- Make sure that the website works in the clients own system and database
- come up with solutions for user access and security
- test the site to find and fix any problem the public may see
some useful subjects you may need:
collages and universities will list the subjects that you will need but these ones may also be useful
- computing science
- Graphics
- Math’s
- physics
Qualifications you will need:
to enter the job you will need national fives in these subjects
- Computing science
- software engineering
- web development
you will also need to have good knowledge of programming languages. You can learn this through school or collage or university or you may also learn it online.
you also may need to sit a technical test as a part of the recement process.