| Web designers and web developers often work | | | | technology. This is the basic language of the internet |
| closely with each other. In order to pursue a career in | | | | and if you don't know the basic language, how will |
| web designing or as a web developer, you need to | | | | you manage to converse? Though this consists of |
| possess a large number of skills. After all, you must | | | | the basics of web designing, it is the most invaluable |
| have an edge over the rest of the crowd who also | | | | aspect of it. Just knowing this language itself enables |
| want to become a part of the booming web design | | | | you to develop simple websites! |
| industry. | | | | CSS is the next step. This is a more advanced |
| Skills Required | | | | program than HTML but it is an amazing tool. CSS is |
| Before we get into the technical side of things, let's | | | | an abbreviation for cascading style sheets. With |
| start with the basic skills you must posses in order to | | | | thorough knowledge of this language, you can give |
| be a web designer. You need to be extremely | | | | your web page makeovers any time! If you design a |
| observant and should have an eye for detail. | | | | web page to look a certain way and with the simple |
| As a web designer, you must pay close attention to | | | | operation required to change a style sheet, you can |
| the nitty-gritty of your job. Moreover, you need to | | | | make it look totally different! |
| know what goes where and how things should be | | | | Javascript and Ajax is something that web designers |
| arranged so as to most appeal to the browsers and | | | | need to get comfortable with. Javascript is the basic |
| the customer base your client is targeting. | | | | interactive element of a web site so, quite obviously, |
| A strong aesthetic sense is also called for. Let's face | | | | as a good web developer, you need to master it. |
| it, a web designer's job is to efficiently design a web | | | | Once you understand the relation between javascript |
| site so that it conveys all the information that it is | | | | and the website you're working on, your task |
| required to, while at the same time being attractive | | | | becomes much easier. Other languages and platforms |
| and eye-catching. | | | | you need to get comfortable with include C++, PERL, |
| No one wants to read pages and pages of | | | | ASP etc. For animation and graphics, learning Flash is |
| information! If they needed to, they could just go to | | | | also quite helpful. |
| Wikipedia! You need to make your web page look | | | | An essential part of the job description is learning and |
| good and for that you need to have a strong | | | | maintaining a proper database, therefore, a complete |
| aesthetic sense. | | | | course in MySQL is highly recommended. SQL is |
| Now, moving on to the more pressing, technical | | | | another database which you can learn along with MS |
| aspect of things as a web designer! You need to | | | | Access. |
| posses a thorough knowledge of XHTML and HTML | | | | |