Career as Web Designer

What: Web designing is the design of web pages, websites and web applications. It is a medium used by companies to promote their business and corporate agencies to market several products to the customers. Web Designing is the process by which web designer make visitors able to access the web pages at one platform with several images, texts, links, graphics etc. Web designing is a career in which a professional simply sell his high creative web designing skills. A designer who can deliver the latest as per the market demands like designs for e-commerce website, content management systems, optimized flash headers will surly have a bright future.

Web design is a design field concerned with designing web pages, websites and web applications. Web Designing is the process by which web designer make visitors able to access the web pages at one platform with several images, texts, links, graphics etc. Web design is used as a general term to describe any of the various tasks involved in creating a web page. More specifically, it refers to jobs focused on building the front-end of a web page. Web designing has now become one of the most popular ways of creating attractive web sites as it can give the most appealing layout to any web site thereby adding to its popularity.

Web Designing is a remunerative career option. Starting salary for fresher’s is about Rs 10,000 to Rs 12,000. With some valuable experience one can reach up to 30,000 – 35,000 per month. Those with experience and capital can start their own web designing company.

How: A Web Designer is a person that creates and arranges the pages that make up a website. Web designers are responsible for creating the look and feel of World Wide Web pages for a client’s Web site by designing the layout, the colours, the fonts, and all the visual aspects of the site. Web Designers often have to balance how a page looks versus how a web page functions. Web designers must have an understanding of software functionality as well as graphic design skills to create successful Web pages. Web design services broadly include need analysis, solution designing, web content writing, web content planning, product photography, graphic designing, designing Flash, HTML coding and Java scripting. Many web designers concentrate mainly on designing software’s or editors and leave the coding part to the programmers. Even if you plan on using designing software’s for most of your career, knowing HTML will give you an understanding of the basis of a web page and that will in turn help to make your design more effective.

Where: With booming IT industry, web designing has a wide scope in India. Most of the companies wishing to create their own web sites look for skilled and qualified web designers. A web designer can be absorbed in different fields such as advertising agencies, publishing, audio-visual media, design studios, printers and typesetters, manufacturers and department stores, marketing firms, exhibits and displays and educational institutes and libraries. The growth is dependent on experience and creativity. All the Software industries require well-qualified web designers to lead the industry at the top rank.

Institutions:

• Arena Multimedia, Across India
• NIIT, Across India
• EDIT, Across India
• Deendayal Upadhyay University, Gorakhpur
• Jadhavpur University, Kolkata
• Madras Christian College, Chennai
• Amity School of Communication, Jaipur