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For a long time I did not write about current professions in the field of remote work. After I arrived, writing about something pragmatic is not easy. But I did it. Found a place to live good internet and started working on projects. On this wave, I’ll tell you about who a website layout designer is, what he does, how much he earns and where you can learn this.
A layout designer (also known as a “workbench”) is a specialist who makes website layout. It translates a layout made by a web designer from a PSD (or other graphic format) into the html markup language.
This is a technical specialist for whom are important:
- attention to details
- meticulousness
- perseverance
- programming skills
- artistic taste
In the process, the layout designer plays one of the leading roles. For thanks to his work, the site should open and look beautiful on any device: from an iron to a widescreen retina display. And if you see skewed blocks on some site, this is 95% the fault of a crooked coder.
ideal workspace
What should a coder be able to do?
In addition to having typical programming qualities, he needs to master the following technologies:
- jquery (at least at the level of "connect someone else's script"
A huge plus will be the ability to develop in jQuery or another popular javascript framework. This brings our workbench closer to the “front-end programmers” bed and makes its work more highly paid.
In modern conditions, layout from scratch is ordered by the most old-school customers. It's long, expensive and nerve-wracking. Therefore, most layout specialists use some popular frameworks like Bootstrap. Roughly speaking: this is when instead of one manual screwdriver you are given a set of power tools that can be connected to the network. With such sets, project management is much easier and more reliable.
Hence the question...
Where, then, to start learning website layout?
I, as a specialist in website development, would make such a step-by-step system:
- basic html + css skills. Tags, attributes, cross-browser compatibility, cascading style sheets. This will allow you to lay out simple layouts and give you an idea about the subject.
- Frameworks like bootstrap. After stage 1, you will understand how much trouble validating the layout and displaying elements in different browsers delivers. Bootstrap will seem like a nice saving pill to you.
- Javascript + jquery. To animate and develop more complex layout user interaction
- Full front-end development. This is coding and programming. The next stage of evolution
Each next level implies mastery of the previous one. You can't jump over here. And it is impossible to become a front-end programmer without knowledge of html.
It is clear that layout designers can have many “levels of initiation”. Often the designer and layout designer are the same person. And that's a big advantage! As a specialist, because it brings more money and less frustration as a result of viewing your site; and for the customer, because there is no need to look for extra people and grind with them a lot of technical details.
We at zenconvert do everything ourselves: design, layout and transfer of the site to . We use semi-automated services for layout, so we can provide results quickly enough. Yes, and I myself do not really like in the codes and guts of sites. I like designing better. And all the technical work I either automate or delegate.
And I will say that good layout designers, like any other specialists, are worth their weight in gold!
Where to study?
There are many options in the 21st century. And the best of them are on the Internet. Therefore, it does not matter where you live: in Goa, Kustanai or Nizhny Tagil. If there was internet...
If you are wondering where to start, I recommend free courses great guy, Misha Rusakovfree course on the basics of HTML and CSS
The course provides a good base if you want to learn from scratch.
If you like them, feel free to take paid products from Mikhail. In them, the topics of website layout are revealed much deeper.
As for the layout designer's earnings... Of course, a lot depends on the level of the specialist, his ability to sell himself and the complexity of the order. But, in a couple of years, you can easily learn how to earn 60-100 thousand rubles freelancing, ride around the world and live in your buzz. A good help for non-stop travel, isn't it?
Paying customers to you and interesting orders!
Hello dear readers. My name is Artem Bilenko. I am the author of this blog. Today we have the next profession html coder. After studying the material, you will know who it is, where to study and what salary representatives of this specialty can expect.
General information about the profession
A layout designer is a specialist who starts working on a project after a web designer and programmer. The HTML coder is responsible for ensuring that the site is displayed correctly in all browsers and technical devices. Let's take a look at what he does.
All the work of an HTML layout designer is based on three principles.
With the description of the profession of a layout designer, we figured it out. Now let's talk about the first steps.
Step #1 Master the three basic skills required for layout.
| № | Skills |
| 1 | HTML |
| 2 | Working with layouts designed in Photoshop |
| 3 | css |
Step #2 Build a portfolio. To do this, it is advisable to start a personal website and publish examples of work and reviews of satisfied customers in one place. Before submitting your first resume, make sure that you have at least five diverse projects in your archive.
Step #3 Get a job as a junior specialist in an Internet studio. Everything is simple here: the faster you start practicing, the faster you will get the first result.
Where to learn and get the right skills
These video tutorials will introduce you to the profession in just 6 days and allow you to lay out your first web page.
After studying the free material, check out the more advanced paid course by this author " HTML5 and CSS3 from Zero to Pro»
Also pay attention to the courses of the University "Netology". Currently enrolling for the course HTML layout: from scratch to the first layout».
After six weeks of online training, you will receive a diploma and an established portfolio. These attributes will help you quickly find a job and earn your first money. Here is a list of skills that you can list on your resume.
Wage
From this section you will find out how much layout designers working in Ukraine and the Russian Federation earn. All statistics are obtained from the site trud.com. Data is current as of early 2017. If you are reading the article later, follow the links provided and update the information.
Russia
The average salary is $257.
The highest paid regions.
- Perm Territory: 118,750 rubles ($2,035);
- Novosibirsk region: 105,833 rubles ($1,810);
- Volgograd region: 92,500 rubles ($1,585).
In 58% of ads, employers are willing to pay no more than 20,000 rubles ($343) for the work of layout designers.
Ukraine
The average salary is $148.
Highest paid areas.
- Ternopil: 18,500 hryvnia ($685);
- Luhansk: 12,000 hryvnia ($445);
- Cherkasy: 10,333 hryvnias ($383).
In 84% of vacancies, the specialty layout designer is estimated at an amount not exceeding 10,000 hryvnia ($370).
Let's compare the results.
Conclusion
Let's see what are the pros and cons of the profession of a coder.
| Advantages | disadvantages |
|---|---|
| Great opportunities for training, career development and self-realization | Irregular schedule |
| For good specialists many offers on the labor market | Personal responsibility for each project |
| Competitive salary | Sedentary type of work |
| The profession can be mastered from scratch, in a short time and without prior training | During the working day, you have to solve many of the same tasks. |
Friends, here you have got an idea of how to become an html coder. Right now you can. If in doubt, study the articles under the heading "". I believe that you will definitely find your calling and work at your favorite job. For now everyone and be happy.
What does an html coder do? What does html css coder do? Layout is one of the most important stages of website creation. After the designer has provided web page layouts, it is necessary to bring them into a browser-friendly format ( Internet Explorer, Opera, FireFox, Chrome, etc.) view.
This work is performed by a specialist in this profession. IN official duties layout designer includes "cutting" the design - all elements, pictures, fonts must be prepared for subsequent layout into a web page. Then the structure of the document is marked, after which, when CSS help design is carried out in accordance with the previously developed design. The result of the work is the correct display of the site design in various browsers and on various types devices at different screen resolutions.
Layout Tools
In his work, the html coder uses various programs for layout designer:
— Adobe Photoshop(layouts for layout are most often transferred in the .psd format);
— browsers (to check the finished layout);
- HTML editors (designed for more convenient writing of code, as they are equipped with highlighting html tags, additional features);
- WYSIWYG editors (from English. WhatYouSeeIsWhatYouGet, “what you see is what you get”, are used to create semi-automatic layout, are not used by professional layout designers, because generated code is not of high quality).
What should a layout designer know?
In addition to the HTML markup language, a modern html coder needs to be able to work with CSS Cascading Style Sheets and be quite familiar with the Java Script web programming language. CSS is used to style elements on web pages. Java Script is also used for styling where CSS is not enough, and is also actively used to create scripts that work on the user's side (for example: mortgage calculators, galleries, slide shows, etc.).
How to become a layout designer?
What is the layout designer's way? None of the universities have a corresponding specialty, however, html layout is taught in any computer specialty, while others are introduced to it during classes in computer science and similar disciplines. You can learn this craft both on your own and by becoming an assistant to a typesetter. Unfortunately, not everyone needs such an assistant, so beginner html A typesetter without experience should first of all rely on his own mind and engage in self-education. You can find a lot of materials and lessons on this topic on the Internet, and you don’t need an overly powerful computer to complete the tasks.
A web layout designer is a profession that does not imply the mandatory presence of an employee in the office or at the machine. Html coder is a remote work, so the coder's work can be done at home.
A web site designer is a specialist who creates full-fledged HTML pages from a drawn design.
What does a maker do
As you know, the site is being developed by several specialists: a layout designer and a programmer.
The site is a complex mechanism. Any complex mechanism requires the efforts of different specialists in the development. The designer draws a layout - a picture, how the portal should look, what colors to use, what sizes the objects should have. The programmer works on the technical side. The layout designer brings to life what the designer has drawn. Gathers a resource by layout.
What does the page look like when it goes to the layout designer? This is a regular .psd file in layers. After the specialist does it, the external page remains the same, but “from the inside” it acquires a certain code.
The graphic file is first analyzed, then it is cut, and the HTML page is rendered step by step:
- A CSS style sheet is created, where colors, fonts, and element positions are defined
- Developed menu, interface.
- The page layout is compared with the design layout for full possible duplication.
- The document is tested in different browsers and at different screen resolutions.
The result is an HTML page template. If the CMS is not connected to the site, then the pages are multiplied and filled with content. If a programmer starts work, he connects the CMS, then the site is filled with information and only after that it is laid out on the hosting.
What a website builder should know
- The hypertext markup language is HTML.
- Styling Methods - CSS.
- Fundamentals of JavaScript, jQuery.
- Tools for HTML layout, checking code for validity.
- Fundamentals of work in graphic editors. As a rule, website design is created in Photoshop.
- Fundamentals of PHP.
Tools for HTML layout
You can type websites manually in Notepad, but it takes a lot of time and effort. Therefore, developed special programs and plugins that make layout easier: DreamWeaver, Amaya, KompoZer, Sublime, Komodo, Firebug, and others.
Three whales of an HTML coder
- High quality valid code. When checking the code, no errors should be generated.
- Usability. Users should be easy on the site.
- Adaptive design. The site must be displayed correctly in different browsers and on mobile gadgets.
Where to find a job
- Web studios.
- Companies that have their own website and need its administration.
- Freelance exchanges.
- Orders on thematic forums.
The salary of a layout designer is from 2 thousand rubles. for 1 project (regions), and reaches an average for the regions - up to 40 thousand rubles. per month, in Moscow - up to 60 thousand rubles. per month.
Many layout designers start small and then grow to the level of webmasters when they combine three technical specialists (designer, layout designer and programmer). The debate continues on the web about whether a webmaster can do three different types of work with high quality? In our opinion, it is quite realistic to combine the work of a web layout designer and a programmer. But it is still better for a designer to have a specialized art education.
→ Typesetter. Who is it?Many do not know who a web page layout designer is. The designer is known, the programmer is known. And when you say that you are a layout designer, you hear in response: “And who is a layout designer, what are you doing?”
Let's turn to the all-knowing Wikipedia.
A web page layout designer is a person who is professionally engaged in the layout of web pages. In general, the task of a web page layout designer (hereinafter the layout designer) includes:
- generating web page code using the appropriate markup language. These can be HTML, XHTML
- styling the previously created page code using the built-in markup language tools, or using CSS cascading style sheets
Then I try to explain in simple terms that a layout designer is something in between a designer and a programmer, a link. The layout designer takes the layout drawn by the designer and makes a “blank” for the programmer. A layout designer can be compared to a translator. It describes (translates) the design using tags. Tags are specially formatted text that provides information about different elements design (text, illustration, table). Thus, after the work of the layout designer, the drawn layout can be viewed as a set of tags.
After layout, the designer checks that his creation looks just as beautiful in the browser, and the programmer checks that the program code can be integrated with the page markup code.
What does a layout designer need to work? Least:
- text editor
- graphics editor
- browser
IN graphics editor A layout designer works with graphics, writes web page code in text, and tests the correct display of layout pages in a browser.
By nature, the layout designer should be a little creative person, because. in the course of his work, he has to work a lot with graphics, often modifying design elements himself. At the same time, the layout designer, like the programmer, must be assiduous, attentive and a little "wrapped" on the code.
The main task of the layout designer is to make browsing the web pages the most convenient and simple for the user. The layout designer must take into account the type of device on which the site will be viewed. The page must be designed taking into account the fact that it can be opened at different screen resolutions, in different versions of browsers, with disabled graphics and scripts. Users of the site may be people with hearing and vision impairments. In addition, the layout must comply with accepted standards. All these factors greatly complicate the work of the layout designer, make it more time-consuming than it might seem at first glance. Maybe that's why there is now a great demand for the work of a layout designer.
Some call the work of a layout designer tedious and uninteresting. To some extent, we can agree with them. But how to explain the fact that a layout designer can do his job all day long, and often even at night, and not notice how time flies. Or maybe the work of a layout designer is not so tedious?
If we compare the work of a layout designer and a journalist, then we can definitely say that a journalist communicates more with people, goes on business trips and sees many interesting places.
The layout designer is also not deprived of communication with people (customers), but most often this happens with the help of the Internet (ICQ, Skype, E-mail). Interesting places for a layout designer are replaced by interesting, professional website designs, and a layout designer travels not by train or plane, but sitting in his desk chair. Travels across the world wide expanses of the Internet, in search of new solutions to the tasks.
Probably, you just need to be a coder to understand this!
So who is this layout designer?