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What does a web designer do?

Web designers manage the look and feel of websites – be they large corporate sites consisting of hundreds of pages, or sites for small businesses comprising just a few.

Either way, it’s the web designer’s responsibility to make decisions about every visual aspect of the site – its colour scheme, the fonts and text size, the images, the buttons, menus and other navigation – and so on.

For anyone thinking about a career as a web designer, it’s worth considering that use of the internet has continued to grow: it’s now estimated that there are over 182 million sites online. And good design is one of the main factors dictating which will be read, and which will be ignored after just a few seconds. That’s why forward-thinking organisations realise the value of skilled, suitably qualified web designers – making it a career path offering plenty of promise.

Qualities for a web designer

So what qualities do you need to become a web designer? Well a strong interest in all things web and internet is good for starters: Do you have clear ideas about what does and doesn’t work when you visit web sites? Do you take an interest in how sites look? Are you a creative, artistic person? And do you like working with computers, and perhaps learning new software packages? Would you like to learn professional software like Adobe Dreamweaver or Photoshop? And finally, are you the kind of person who pays attention to detail, and who would be good at interpreting someone else’s brief?

If all of this sounds like you, then it’s certainly worth thinking through some of the other factors involved with becoming a web designer.

People skills count

You may have visions of shutting yourself away all day with your computer and your favourite radio station, and ‘creating in your home office’. While that may well be possible for some of the time, it’s also useful to have or develop another set of skills, around successfully working with other people. You’ll need to listen to what’s required (‘take the brief’), ask pertinent questions, and reach a solid understanding of what will make your client happy. And then ensure that your work delivers – or ‘meets the brief’.

Little or large?

Being a web designer may also involve working as part of a team. If you work in a larger design or advertising agency, your team may be led by an account manager who liaises with the client; you may work under a creative director, and alongside copywriters, photographers, other web designers and web developers – those responsible for programming sites and ensuring any special functionality works as it should.

Equally you may work for a much smaller company where you’re in charge of ‘all things web’; in this case you’ll still need to be team-minded, as it’s in smaller organisations where pitching in to help out is often essential. So one day you may be presenting to a client, and another pricing up a new job.

Or you may choose to work for yourself as a freelance web designer. It’s a path many choose, but you will need to find out about the legal requirements of running a small business, and develop general business skills – from marketing and sales to estimating and bookkeeping – as well as honing your website design abilities.

Getting started

So where should you begin? Well learning the recognised software packages is probably a must; developing an understanding of HTML and CSS – the basic building blocks of web pages – is going to come in handy sooner or later; you could learn technologies like Flash, or other coding languages such as PHP – useful for sites needing more functionality; and you could even stretch yourself by learning about popular content management systems like Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal.

The bottom line in web design

The bottom line is that the more skills you can develop, the more employable you’re likely to be. But you really don’t need to know everything before you can start designing great looking websites for your clients.

- See more at: http://www.ukwda.org/careers-advice/becoming-a-web-designer#sthash.BLPVIXTv.dpuf

Pablo Picasso

“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso

Vincent Van Gogh

“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” – Vincent Van Gogh

Salvador Dali

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it” – Salvador Dali

Leo Burnett

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people” – Leo Burnett

Jack London

“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club” – Jack London

George Bernard Shaw

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will” – George Bernard Shaw

Dr. Seuss

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try” – Dr. Seuss

Charles Mingus

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity” – Charles Mingus

Voltaire

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation” – Voltaire

Donatella Versace

“Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas” – Donatella Versace

Ray Bradbury

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things” – Ray Bradbury

Steve Jobs

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, the just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while” – Steve Jobs

Cecil B. DeMille

“Creativity is a drug I cannot live without” – Cecil B. DeMille

George Bernard Shaw

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw

Albert Einstein

“Creativity is contagious, pass it on” – Albert Einstein

Interesting Facts about Computer

1. There are approx. 6,000 new computer viruses released every month.

2. Doug Engelbart, invented the first computer mouse in the year 1964 and it was made up of wood!

3. It is believed that the first computer virus released in the world was a boot sector virus, which was created in the year 1986 by Farooq Alvi brothers. It was designed by them to protect their research work.

Modern Computers

4. A normal human being blinks 20 times in a minute, whereas a computer user blinks only 7 times a minute!

5. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

6. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

 7. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

8. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles. 

9. The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.

10. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

11.  The house of Bill Gates was designed using a Macintosh computer. 

Replica of Z1 Computer, First Computer to be made

12. The group of 12 engineers who designed IBM PC were called "The Dirty Dozen".

13. One of the world's leading computer and computer peripheral manufacturer Hewlett Packard was first started in a garage at Palo Alto in the year 1939.

14. On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

15. Early hard drives in Personal Computers held 20 MB, or 20 Megabytes, and cost about $800. By comparison, an $8 flash drive holds 2 GB, or 2 Gigabytes. That's a 100-fold decrease in price and a 100-fold increase in capacity.

16. The computer mouse, the windowing GUI, laser printing, and the network card were all developed at one company; Xerox in Palo Alto, California.

17. The computer in your cell phone has more processing power than all the computers in the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander that put 2 men on the moon.

18. 'Crash Course' is another name for Microsoft Windows tutorials.

19. Although we normally think of computers as the ones we use in our everyday lives to surf the web, write documents etc, small computers are also embedded into other things such as mobile phones, toys, microwaves and MP3 players. We use computers all the time, often without even knowing it!

20. Almost all computer users must know how destructive a virus can be. But then, it would be interesting to know that a virus cannot corrupt your PC on its own. It corrupts your system only when you activate it by either downloading infected files from the Internet or by sharing these infected files. 

ONE WINDOWS MAGIC TRICK:-

Nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON” (without Quotes). 
TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE ” CON ” FOLDER

Actually CON is one of system reserved words, that's why it cant create CON Folder !!! - See more at: http://www.doyouknowgk.com/2013/03/interesting-facts-about-computers.html#sthash.dkAaz43C.dpuf