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Tasks of the Web designer: the production and care of Websites in the World Wide Web. The Web designer is responsible thereby primarily for the organization, the structure and the user guidance, i.e. the interface Design and the conversion of the Corporate Design.

In large Internet agencies the Web designer is used often exclusively for the graphic Design of the web pages. Large tasks are then transferred by other specialists to division of labor.

An important part of its task is it also, the best compromise between the desires of the client to find to the requirements of the visitors and the technical possibilities.

Technical conditions

In job advertisements for firm or free coworkers within the range Web Design knowledge in the following fields of activity is usually requested:

Design, in particular Web Design
User friendliness (English usability)
Treatment of pictures with diagram working on software
HTML/XHTML (usually to the structuring of side contents
CSS for the organization, the layout and the Design of the Site
JavaScript/DHTML for the programming of clientseitiger Skripte - increasingly in connection with AJAX
Flash with ActionScript for the organization of animations or Browserspiel development
Content management of systems
usual HTML editors

If the Web designer is to be used for the production of a dynamic application of Web, usually or several of the following auxiliary knowledge are necessary:

PHP for server-lateral programming
Perl for server-lateral programming
Java/JSP for server-lateral programming
ASP/ASP.NET to server-lateral programming
SQL for the control of SQL data bases (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, ms SQL server, DB2, Sybase)
Web server (e.g. Apache Webserver or Microsoft Internet information server)
Application server (e.g. Jboss, Oracle Applikationsserver, BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere)
Operating systems (e.g. UNIX, Linux, Windows or Mac OS)

Training

There is at present no (nationally recognized) teaching profession to the Web designer. Web designers are mostly trained commercial artists, Mediengestalter or computer scientists, who specialized within this range. Due to the fast development and the relatively recent career profile, this specialization takes place usually auto+didactically.

Assigned aids

Depending upon setting of tasks Tools come such as picture working on programs, HTML editors, content management of systems and often also software solutions for the organization of animations, on-line Bildschirmschonern, on-line plays, screen presentations etc. for the employment.

Criticism

A usual criticism at the work of Web designers means that their task consists often alone of arranging a if possible responding appearance. The user friendliness, the barrier liberty as well as the technical accuracy and/or compatibility of the developing web pages remained thereby on the distance. Although Web designers beside the pure diagram and screen Design also extensive and deep technical authority needs, these are sufficiently missing with some or they would attach a larger importance to as effect-rich "an exterior "of the web page as possible. This criticism is stated in particular by Web designer colleagues.