im interested in doing this when im older. what type of software do you use and how long does it take to create an average website. what what happens in an average week. do u work in an actual office or do u do it at home. how much do u get paid a year. are there any qualifications i will need to do this. btw im only 15
That’s a perfect age to start developing websites.
Do not expect riches right away. There are lots of young talented web designers. If you live in the US and make $20K a year, that’s nice spending money but not to live on. In India and other lower wage countries that’s a lot of money to live on. So understand the economics of low wage countries vs. those with higher wages (US, western europe).
You can work at home and communicate with your employers via IM or email. Typically you deploy your web sites on a staging server where your employer can look at the site.
More important than the $$ or qualifications is that you must really like what you are doing. Building good web sites is hard work, and there are too many technologies for doing so to master by a single person.
Most serious web sites involve some kind of server-side technology, in addition to static content (html, css, image files, flash videos).
You can pick LAMP (Linux, Apache webserver, PHP, mysql for database). Or you can go the Java/JSP with Apache or jboss and oracle or mysql route. Or the microsoft technologies: asp .net, IIS (web server), sql server, C# programming.
One step at a time: starting with HTML and CSS, and some basic image editing (photoshop elements is fine). You can purchase adobe dreamweaver, which is the pro’s choice. Microsoft has expression web 2.0, which is $99 and almost just as good.
Have fun.
That’s a perfect age to start developing websites.
Do not expect riches right away. There are lots of young talented web designers. If you live in the US and make $20K a year, that’s nice spending money but not to live on. In India and other lower wage countries that’s a lot of money to live on. So understand the economics of low wage countries vs. those with higher wages (US, western europe).
You can work at home and communicate with your employers via IM or email. Typically you deploy your web sites on a staging server where your employer can look at the site.
More important than the $$ or qualifications is that you must really like what you are doing. Building good web sites is hard work, and there are too many technologies for doing so to master by a single person.
Most serious web sites involve some kind of server-side technology, in addition to static content (html, css, image files, flash videos).
You can pick LAMP (Linux, Apache webserver, PHP, mysql for database). Or you can go the Java/JSP with Apache or jboss and oracle or mysql route. Or the microsoft technologies: asp .net, IIS (web server), sql server, C# programming.
One step at a time: starting with HTML and CSS, and some basic image editing (photoshop elements is fine). You can purchase adobe dreamweaver, which is the pro’s choice. Microsoft has expression web 2.0, which is $99 and almost just as good.
Have fun.
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I also want to add to the good first answer.
You might want to be clear on what exactly you want to do too! Too many ppl make the mistake of just classing everything as "website designer" when that job has more in common with graphic design than programming.
I started out as a graphic desinger many many years ago, but I’m now a developer.
Web Designer is an arty\creative job.
Web Developer is programming\coding.
They are totally different jobs!
Hope this helps!
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