Web Designers???, Please Help me.... Options

[V V]

IS THERE NOBODY TO ANSWER MY QUESTION???

I am a Graphic / Web designer working as a fresher in a company for the past few months. In the company there is not a single senior person (b'coz the company is opened newly and all staffs are fresher in different fields with no experience) who can guide me in my work and give some guidelines to improve my working skills. I need answers for the following questions:

1. What is the exact role of web designer in the web company?

2. What are the tasks the web designer has to do?

3. When designing a homepage the resources like images, button's name, choice of colors to be used etc., who should decide and provide - the client or the web designer?

IMPORTANT QUESTION

4. If the client tells the web company that they want new images to be used in their website, How a web designer gets new images for the website project to be created? Is it to be provided by the client or the company(who creates websites) has to find the same on its own?

5. Is it necessary that the web designer should know how to create form in the web pages and also its scripting part to function properly?

6. What should be the minimum and maximum file size of the web pages?

Thanks in advance.

[design-is]

Hi there VV

IS THERE NOBODY TO ANSWER MY QUESTION???

Sorry for the delay... the forum isn't as active as it once was. Have you asked before? You seem very impatient for someone with only 2 posts.

1) Depends on the company. Sometimes you just need to create the visuals, others you need to code, and sometimes you need to be both designer and developer. It really depends on how the company you work for operates and what is in your job description.

2) Ideally, you will be responsible for talking with the client, discovering their need, and coming up with the solution to their problem. You can right up a brief and present them with it. You develop your idea. You present your idea and develop it following client feedback. You work with a developer to build the site once the design is signed off.

3) You should work WITH your client to decide these things together. They will provide understanding of their target, you will provide understanding of design principles and how the web works. Together you will make / source the best images, button name, choice of colours that work for the user and in turn help the site achieve it's goals.

4) If they want new images, do they have a budget for stock images? A budget for photography? Does it need to be free? Do they have an image library? YOU need to be able to present them with the options and work with the client to find the best option for them. Clients need to understand changes take time and cost money.

5) Depends on the agency. It will always be useful to have a knowledge of coding, but you won't necessarily have to do it. See answer 1.

6) Very much depends on the web page.

Hope that helps... What are your thoughts?

/Doug

[V V]

Hi there VV



Sorry for the delay... the forum isn't as active as it once was. Have you asked before? You seem very impatient for someone with only 2 posts.

1) Depends on the company. Sometimes you just need to create the visuals, others you need to code, and sometimes you need to be both designer and developer. It really depends on how the company you work for operates and what is in your job description.

2) Ideally, you will be responsible for talking with the client, discovering their need, and coming up with the solution to their problem. You can right up a brief and present them with it. You develop your idea. You present your idea and develop it following client feedback. You work with a developer to build the site once the design is signed off.

3) You should work WITH your client to decide these things together. They will provide understanding of their target, you will provide understanding of design principles and how the web works. Together you will make / source the best images, button name, choice of colours that work for the user and in turn help the site achieve it's goals.

4) If they want new images, do they have a budget for stock images? A budget for photography? Does it need to be free? Do they have an image library? YOU need to be able to present them with the options and work with the client to find the best option for them. Clients need to understand changes take time and cost money.

5) Depends on the agency. It will always be useful to have a knowledge of coding, but you won't necessarily have to do it. See answer 1.

6) Very much depends on the web page.

Hope that helps... What are your thoughts?

/Doug

Very much thanks for your reply.

[design-is]

My pleasure

Hope it was useful...

[Ionisis]

Hey V, you know, to be honest, the definition of "web designer" is completely arbitrary and varies by the company. Some designers have many other roles as their job duty, such as coding out the design, and even programming it. Designers that i hire are only asked to send PSD/XCF files, and do almost NOTHING ELSE at all (because i do EVERYTHING, but i suck at design).

I know that's not a definitive answer, but hopefully it helps you to see that there really is no definitive answer....

Good luck!