Career Guide: Web Development- Web Designer

Web Designer Career
WEB DESIGNER


Web designer is responsible for user interface design of a website. It includes designing of logo, banners, advertisements as well as other interactive elements. Its main goal is includes the development of user friendly, interactive and attractive designs so that user click on most of the links or banners. Moreover, the contents are presented to the end user in form of web pages. These interactive elements are placed in a website using markup languages. So, a web designer should be proficient in atleast HTML which is very common and effective markup language.
 
In general practice, a web designer is responsible for creating static web pages rather than database driven dynamic web pages.  Here, static web page refers to the web document which remains same in content and layout unless the web designer changes it manually.
 
On other part, dynamic web pages change its structure and contents depending upon the input given by the end-user.
 
For a commercial website, the following aspects are considered -
Quality of images
Quality of Content or simply Effective Content Writing
User Friendly with simple, efficient and reliable interfaces
Search Engines Friendly
Color combination of text, background and images
Quick downloading of pages
Consistency in all web pages of the website
Consistency in navigation
 
DESIRED PROFILE

Graduate in any Discipline.
Good Communication Skills to interact directly with the Client.
Good knowledge of Designing Concepts,
Exposure to Search Engine Optimization Techniques
Awareness of the latest trend in web designing & development.
Knowledge of HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Dreamweaver, Flash, Flash action scripts
Basic knowledge of server side scripts and database handling.
Knowledge to customize the web applications for multiple web browsers – Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla Firefox
 
RESPONSIBILITIES
Updating and maintaining the company Websites on regular basis.
To help in providing input and support for design functionality.
Understanding and gathering the client’s requirements and designing as per specifications
Delivering Creative Visualizations designs of Websites based on client requisition.
Designing banners/templates/logo and other media elements including.
Digital image processing using Adobe PhotoShop, Flash and other tools.

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