Web Design For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

Chapter 1. So You Want to Be a Web Designer?

In This Chapter

• Understanding team member roles and responsibilities

• Getting started on your Web design career

The Internet industry has been exploding since its inception — from Web sites to wireless, the opportunities are endless. This is great news for you if you're thinking about becoming a professional Web designer. The industry is still relatively new, and a lot of territory remains uncharted. Exciting, rapid developments are around every corner.

Web design is not just about creating a single Web page that looks pretty. In this book, I show you how to design a whole collection of pretty pages that also link together in a way that makes sense to the user. Modern Web sites can consist of hundreds of pages. As a professional Web designer, your job is to know how to integrate design and navigation using the myriad of technologies and techniques to build an effective site.

Does this task sound daunting? Never fear, that's what teams are for! People who can do everything from HTML coding to programming to graphic and interaction design are rare. If you want to be a Web designer, you simply need to understand enough about the entire process from start to finish, and the role that every team member plays, to enable you to focus on the fun stuff — design.

In this chapter, I introduce you to the different players that you'll surround yourself with ...