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The internet is booming. In the last year the number of company sites on the internet has grown by a third. It is now physically impossible to view every page on the net, as they are being made faster than we can see them. Companies are getting on the net and doing more trade than ever. The internet is growing fast.
So who is making all these sites? Go to Google.com and type in Web Design Companies. It found 1,700,000 related links, and theres probably more by the time you read this. If each of these pages is a web design company, there is more companies than there are people in London and New York combined!
On top of that, who here knows a little about coding? You can bet that most people here can make a "This is me and this is my dog" page and nearly all of us have a Geocities site. There must be literally millions of people who are able to create websites in the world. Tomorrows World did a special on the internet, and on their website they ran a special teaching people how to code!
The reason for this is that it is really easy to make a page. Not like Turbo and his PHP, but a straight advertisement page can be knocked up by a complete novice in days. I had a work experience guy not too long ago at my work, and I taught him how to code HTML in a week, in which, he created another 2 sites on the net.
Why am I going on about this? Well, because there are so many people allready able to code a page, and the fact that to learn it is a matter of a few days reading up on the net, should us professional web designers fear for our jobs? The industry is growing, and the number of sites that need to be made is growing, but with the likes of Dreamweaver and (the awful) Frontpage, some are doing it themselves, some are learning to code, and some are even giving it to their sons!
Thats another issue. Our generation of natural PC users and games players are fully computer literate. It's the world we and future generations have been brought up in. There are many companies where the MDs are a bit scared about "this new fangled internet thing" and give it to their kids who know more about "that kind of thing". Give it 5-10 years, and it'll be us running those companies, perfectly able to code our own sites.
So, with everyone writing their own sites and there being more web designers than ever, is there going to be enough work for us all?
Currently, the people wanting sites have no interest in learning code, they have too much to do with the running of their companies, and expect that actual companies that specialise in web design will do a better job. Even that is a risky business though. Look around the net and there are some really pro sites made by kids in their bedrooms. How is the big cheeses to know?
The future? The pro companies will start to struggle as less and less supercompanies need sites. The smaller companies will jostle for work in competition from the bedroom whizzkids, and companies will have ex-bedroom whizzkids working there, so less and less companies require sites.
We, as Web designers must remember that our jobs are under threat. We have to keep up with the latest technologies. We have to use the position that we are in to make sure that we are one better than the people who work at the companies we are fighting for, so they can feel better about spending the money with us rather than doing it themselves. We personally have to have CVs as long as our arms with skills, sites we have done and training courses so we have something over our younger competitors.
It's a tougher industry than the simplicity of the coding suggests, very volitile and instable especially in these times of infancy.
Be alert. Your country needs lerts.
So who is making all these sites? Go to Google.com and type in Web Design Companies. It found 1,700,000 related links, and theres probably more by the time you read this. If each of these pages is a web design company, there is more companies than there are people in London and New York combined!
On top of that, who here knows a little about coding? You can bet that most people here can make a "This is me and this is my dog" page and nearly all of us have a Geocities site. There must be literally millions of people who are able to create websites in the world. Tomorrows World did a special on the internet, and on their website they ran a special teaching people how to code!
The reason for this is that it is really easy to make a page. Not like Turbo and his PHP, but a straight advertisement page can be knocked up by a complete novice in days. I had a work experience guy not too long ago at my work, and I taught him how to code HTML in a week, in which, he created another 2 sites on the net.
Why am I going on about this? Well, because there are so many people allready able to code a page, and the fact that to learn it is a matter of a few days reading up on the net, should us professional web designers fear for our jobs? The industry is growing, and the number of sites that need to be made is growing, but with the likes of Dreamweaver and (the awful) Frontpage, some are doing it themselves, some are learning to code, and some are even giving it to their sons!
Thats another issue. Our generation of natural PC users and games players are fully computer literate. It's the world we and future generations have been brought up in. There are many companies where the MDs are a bit scared about "this new fangled internet thing" and give it to their kids who know more about "that kind of thing". Give it 5-10 years, and it'll be us running those companies, perfectly able to code our own sites.
So, with everyone writing their own sites and there being more web designers than ever, is there going to be enough work for us all?
Currently, the people wanting sites have no interest in learning code, they have too much to do with the running of their companies, and expect that actual companies that specialise in web design will do a better job. Even that is a risky business though. Look around the net and there are some really pro sites made by kids in their bedrooms. How is the big cheeses to know?
The future? The pro companies will start to struggle as less and less supercompanies need sites. The smaller companies will jostle for work in competition from the bedroom whizzkids, and companies will have ex-bedroom whizzkids working there, so less and less companies require sites.
We, as Web designers must remember that our jobs are under threat. We have to keep up with the latest technologies. We have to use the position that we are in to make sure that we are one better than the people who work at the companies we are fighting for, so they can feel better about spending the money with us rather than doing it themselves. We personally have to have CVs as long as our arms with skills, sites we have done and training courses so we have something over our younger competitors.
It's a tougher industry than the simplicity of the coding suggests, very volitile and instable especially in these times of infancy.
Be alert. Your country needs lerts.
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THe thing is the difference in style between the home user playing with code and the pro. Also the web is becoming more then just static pages. PHP, ASP (the evil language), CGI, etc will be the future.
Your Honour wrote:
> Good post.
Just one thing. I think that if you add up all the people in NY
> and London, you get more than 1,700,000. Bearing in mind that about 5,000,000
> people live in London alone.....
Soz! I quickly searched for a figure on google, and diddnt really check the facts.
Sorry all!
> Good post.
Just one thing. I think that if you add up all the people in NY
> and London, you get more than 1,700,000. Bearing in mind that about 5,000,000
> people live in London alone.....
Soz! I quickly searched for a figure on google, and diddnt really check the facts.
Sorry all!
As much as this is a serious topic and not a GAD attempt, a post in this forum hardly wins at all, which might explain why people just use it for advice, and not for PC and internet issues which get posted in chat and prime as they are more likely to be read.
I don't care if this wins or not, as the issue is the main reason for the post, not the GAD, but could the people here possibly let some GAD come to this forum please? It would bring more people in (which TBN will be happy about...)
Anyway. On with the topic.....
:)
I don't care if this wins or not, as the issue is the main reason for the post, not the GAD, but could the people here possibly let some GAD come to this forum please? It would bring more people in (which TBN will be happy about...)
Anyway. On with the topic.....
:)
Good post.
Just one thing. I think that if you add up all the people in NY and London, you get more than 1,700,000. Bearing in mind that about 5,000,000 people live in London alone.....
Just one thing. I think that if you add up all the people in NY and London, you get more than 1,700,000. Bearing in mind that about 5,000,000 people live in London alone.....
The internet is booming. In the last year the number of company sites on the internet has grown by a third. It is now physically impossible to view every page on the net, as they are being made faster than we can see them. Companies are getting on the net and doing more trade than ever. The internet is growing fast.
So who is making all these sites? Go to Google.com and type in Web Design Companies. It found 1,700,000 related links, and theres probably more by the time you read this. If each of these pages is a web design company, there is more companies than there are people in London and New York combined!
On top of that, who here knows a little about coding? You can bet that most people here can make a "This is me and this is my dog" page and nearly all of us have a Geocities site. There must be literally millions of people who are able to create websites in the world. Tomorrows World did a special on the internet, and on their website they ran a special teaching people how to code!
The reason for this is that it is really easy to make a page. Not like Turbo and his PHP, but a straight advertisement page can be knocked up by a complete novice in days. I had a work experience guy not too long ago at my work, and I taught him how to code HTML in a week, in which, he created another 2 sites on the net.
Why am I going on about this? Well, because there are so many people allready able to code a page, and the fact that to learn it is a matter of a few days reading up on the net, should us professional web designers fear for our jobs? The industry is growing, and the number of sites that need to be made is growing, but with the likes of Dreamweaver and (the awful) Frontpage, some are doing it themselves, some are learning to code, and some are even giving it to their sons!
Thats another issue. Our generation of natural PC users and games players are fully computer literate. It's the world we and future generations have been brought up in. There are many companies where the MDs are a bit scared about "this new fangled internet thing" and give it to their kids who know more about "that kind of thing". Give it 5-10 years, and it'll be us running those companies, perfectly able to code our own sites.
So, with everyone writing their own sites and there being more web designers than ever, is there going to be enough work for us all?
Currently, the people wanting sites have no interest in learning code, they have too much to do with the running of their companies, and expect that actual companies that specialise in web design will do a better job. Even that is a risky business though. Look around the net and there are some really pro sites made by kids in their bedrooms. How is the big cheeses to know?
The future? The pro companies will start to struggle as less and less supercompanies need sites. The smaller companies will jostle for work in competition from the bedroom whizzkids, and companies will have ex-bedroom whizzkids working there, so less and less companies require sites.
We, as Web designers must remember that our jobs are under threat. We have to keep up with the latest technologies. We have to use the position that we are in to make sure that we are one better than the people who work at the companies we are fighting for, so they can feel better about spending the money with us rather than doing it themselves. We personally have to have CVs as long as our arms with skills, sites we have done and training courses so we have something over our younger competitors.
It's a tougher industry than the simplicity of the coding suggests, very volitile and instable especially in these times of infancy.
Be alert. Your country needs lerts.
So who is making all these sites? Go to Google.com and type in Web Design Companies. It found 1,700,000 related links, and theres probably more by the time you read this. If each of these pages is a web design company, there is more companies than there are people in London and New York combined!
On top of that, who here knows a little about coding? You can bet that most people here can make a "This is me and this is my dog" page and nearly all of us have a Geocities site. There must be literally millions of people who are able to create websites in the world. Tomorrows World did a special on the internet, and on their website they ran a special teaching people how to code!
The reason for this is that it is really easy to make a page. Not like Turbo and his PHP, but a straight advertisement page can be knocked up by a complete novice in days. I had a work experience guy not too long ago at my work, and I taught him how to code HTML in a week, in which, he created another 2 sites on the net.
Why am I going on about this? Well, because there are so many people allready able to code a page, and the fact that to learn it is a matter of a few days reading up on the net, should us professional web designers fear for our jobs? The industry is growing, and the number of sites that need to be made is growing, but with the likes of Dreamweaver and (the awful) Frontpage, some are doing it themselves, some are learning to code, and some are even giving it to their sons!
Thats another issue. Our generation of natural PC users and games players are fully computer literate. It's the world we and future generations have been brought up in. There are many companies where the MDs are a bit scared about "this new fangled internet thing" and give it to their kids who know more about "that kind of thing". Give it 5-10 years, and it'll be us running those companies, perfectly able to code our own sites.
So, with everyone writing their own sites and there being more web designers than ever, is there going to be enough work for us all?
Currently, the people wanting sites have no interest in learning code, they have too much to do with the running of their companies, and expect that actual companies that specialise in web design will do a better job. Even that is a risky business though. Look around the net and there are some really pro sites made by kids in their bedrooms. How is the big cheeses to know?
The future? The pro companies will start to struggle as less and less supercompanies need sites. The smaller companies will jostle for work in competition from the bedroom whizzkids, and companies will have ex-bedroom whizzkids working there, so less and less companies require sites.
We, as Web designers must remember that our jobs are under threat. We have to keep up with the latest technologies. We have to use the position that we are in to make sure that we are one better than the people who work at the companies we are fighting for, so they can feel better about spending the money with us rather than doing it themselves. We personally have to have CVs as long as our arms with skills, sites we have done and training courses so we have something over our younger competitors.
It's a tougher industry than the simplicity of the coding suggests, very volitile and instable especially in these times of infancy.
Be alert. Your country needs lerts.
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