Sergej C.

Creating a nice looking and well functioning web page may seem deceptively easy, but it requires much more than just knowing the code. Being successful web designer needs skills, which reach far beyond working hard and paying closest attention on every detail. Any usable and distinctively pleasing design results from a process involving creativity and good taste. Beside talent and clear willingness for achieving some astonishing and hauntingly beautiful web products there is of course a certain set of reasonable expectations about the competence and the acquired skills of the web designer. The complexity of his work straitens the making of a detailed list of all required abilities, but here are the basics I believe in: - HTML5 / XHTML - CSS2.1 / CSS3 - jQuery / Ajax - Progressive enhancement / Graceful degradation - HTML and CSS Specifications (W3C / WHATWG) - Responsive Web Design - SEO Basics - Cross-Browser / Cross-Platform Development - Cross-Browser Bugs and Inconsistencies (primarily IE6-8) - Back-end Templating languages/technologies (PHP / MySQL) - HTML5/CSS3 Polyfills - CMS - WordPress - User experience design - Graphical layouts and images for websites - Content strategy and management - Image Editing Tools (Photoshop ) - Web Font Embedding / Licensing