Malaysian Website Designers Soon Extinct

Every day I’ll run through the employment opportunities section of the papers to see the demand of designers or programmers in the market. I’ve noticed very few advertise these jobs in the printed media anymore. Most of these jobs are likely to be found on Jobstreet or probably the newer Jobs and More website.

While I was walking today, it came to my attention that most employers are requesting for graphic designer with skills of being able to create website or ‘web page designs’.

But when they say ‘create web page designs’, what they really mean is that the graphic designer is able to design a website and is able to program in HTML. Of course it isn’t all that difficult now since they could freely design in Photoshop, slice it and have it exported out into a ready made HTML file.

See how inexperience some employers are nowadays?

Just because they’ve heard from their business partner or children that all you need is some Adobe or Macromedia applications to create a website in a day, the profession or respect for a website designer is becoming extinct.

The employers assume that the graphic designers know about web standards or other technology like PHP to help provide their website better value. Sheesh, talk about degrading. It’s bad enough that website designers are at each others throats for projects for peanuts but now we’ve also to deal with the loss of respect in this profession.

If someone in Malaysia doesn’t slap more sense into the employers about the professions of website design during those conventions, I think I’ll need to call myself some phunky rank.

Maybe I should dub myself, Chief Website Professor. Not bad, it has a scientific profession to it.

Oh yeah, maybe then there won’t be any need of website agencies because employers will assume they can produce a cutting-edge high profile website or microsite on their own.

I think that day will come soon with our ‘smart people’ here who never change.

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