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Who is a web designer?

July 19, 2006

By definition a Web Designer is a person who creates web sites.

Web designers may use Web Authoring software such as Microsoft Frontpage or Dreamweaver or an HTML editor to create the actual pages, or they may design the overall look and let a Web master do the actual coding. Some designers use a plain text editor to craft websites. Most often, they are also proficient with Web graphics and images.

Web browser standards are not yet fully harmonized. A website that looks great in Internet Explorer might look horrible in a Mozilla based browser like Firefox or Netscape. Additionally, with the proliferation of hand held devices for browsing the Internet, compliance with W3C standards is becoming more and more critical. Your designer must be conversant with the intricacies of cross-browser design — designing for one browser (IE) is no longer ideal, as the Google backed FireFox is eating up Microsoft’s browser turf at an alarming rate.

Someone who can whip up a web page in FrontPage without the knowledge of HTML will not be able detect and correct the messy code that Frontpage generates underneath the page, some of which is proprietary to Microsoft—consequently a website that look glorious in Microsoft Internet Explorer may look and load terribly in Opera and/or some other browser. Therefore when choosing a designer to build your website it’s essential that that you check their credentials carefully.

Jeremy Hoehn, an accomplished Web Designer outlines 5 attributes you should take into consideration when looking for a good professional web designer - Qualities of a Good Web Designer

Written by James Opiko · Filed Under Web-Dev-Design 

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