{"id":1640,"date":"2010-03-13T16:13:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T21:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2010-03-13T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T21:14:51","slug":"want-a-job-become-a-web-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2010\/want-a-job-become-a-web-professional\/","title":{"rendered":"Want a job? Become a web professional!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"web<\/p>\n

A common question that is put to me by aspiring web designers is: <\/p>\n

\n What are the job prospect looking forward, for web designers and web programmers? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oftentimes, they will mention web templates and other tools\/technology that speed up the process of web design, seeing them as potential roadblocks for the profession: <\/p>\n

… if these tools keep getting better and making web design easier, who’s going to need web designers?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let me first start by saying that web designers, programmers, market specialist and all other web professionals are going to become even MORE SOUGHT AFTER, over the next many years. <\/p>\n

Why? Simple young nerdlings, everything is jumping onto the Web. Radio stations and newspapers are going bust, magazines and books are going digital … even TV is fragmenting, where video sites like Youtube have huge audiences that rival many traditional TV networks.<\/p>\n

But wait, there’s more!<\/p>\n

Besides traditional media business having to go online, just about every business (large and small) NEED to have a Web presence. Today, a business without a website is like a home without electricity. <\/p>\n

So it’s pretty clear that business needs to be on the Web and so the Web is growing like crazy. But how about them pesky templates and blogs that make putting up a website easy? Well, let me ask you, do you know how to install a blog, set up a database? Do you know how to choose a good domain name, structure a website so that it is search engine friendly? Do you know how to add sound, video, contact forms, forums …. e-commerce systems to a site? Do you know how the design a custom theme for WordPress or Drupal? <\/p>\n

… Now, as a web professional you may know how to do some of these things, but what I can tell you with great certainty, is just about all non-web designers no nothing about how to do these things. That’s where a web professional comes in:<\/p>\n

– installing that blog.
\n– customizing the theme.
\n– adding the forum.<\/p>\n

… etc.<\/p>\n

Anyway, don’t just take my opinion on this, the LA Times just wrote an article talking about how IT professionals are finding jobs easily<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now the article doesn’t mention web designers or programmers specifically, but you can be sure they are a serious part of the mix. One thing the article does mention though, is that the more skills you have, the greater chance you will get a job and the more money you will make – something I’ve been pushing for years: web designers need to evolve into 21st century web designers and learn:<\/p>\n

HTML, CSS<\/a>
\nPHP <\/a>
\nJavascript<\/a><\/p>\n

.. Just knowing how to design won’t cut it anymore. <\/p>\n

Stefan Mischook
\nwww.killersites.com <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"web<\/p>\n

A common question that is put to me by aspiring web designers is: <\/p>\n

” What are the job prospect looking forward, for web designers and web programmers? ”<\/p>\n

Oftentimes, they will mention web templates and other tools\/technology that speed up the process of web design, seeing them as potential roadblocks for the profession: <\/p>\n

“… if these tools keep getting better and making web design easier, who’s going to need web designers?”<\/p>\n

Let me first start by saying that web designers, programmers, market specialist and all other web professionals are going to become even MORE SOUGHT AFTER, over the next many years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}