This article is guested post by Cliff Jensen.
If you want to get involved in web development industry there is a lot of possibilities to fulfill yourself choosing one of the web design jobs. The task for each interested is to find the most appropriate profession which fits all your needs and desires, and which will appear the best one to implement all your capabilities. Mind that you need to have a realistic view of things and evaluate your real scope before taking the responsibility of accomplishing certain work. The long and the short of it, there is a lot of jobs in web industry you can look for.
Searching for a good web design job you need to know how to look for it properly. The first main thing is to think over web job titles and here comes the first trick. It’s for sure that the word “web” refers straight to some kind of activity in web development but you should be aware that there are other names related to web industry jobs sounding differently. In order for you not to be confused and avoid misunderstandings let’s have a look at a list of jobs available for earning money on the web.
1. Web designer or graphic designer
The most popular and spread job one can be occupied with on the web. Requires good art skills, creative march of intellect and rich imagination for designing web sites on various topics. You can work either from office or from home being a freelancer and managing the work time according to your preferences. Your income depends on the quantity and quality of accomplished tasks, but in fact this job can bring a big income.
2. Web writer/copywriter
Nowadays web writers are much in demand for companies involved in web industry as they are responsible for advertising and writing content, usually working in a creative team, but also there is always a possibility to work from home being a freelancer. So if you are full of interesting ideas and are fond of creative writing you can make good money writing on the web.
3. Editor/copyeditor
Is responsible for the publication content and requires perfect language skills for managing and editing the content.
4. Product manager
The main tasks of a product manager imply researching, selecting and placing companies products, as well as companies working in the market of web development.
5. Digital developer
This job means dealing with e-commerce and requires certain e-commerce, design and flash scripting experience for developing software and creating websites from scratch.
6. Web reviewer
Is similar to what web writers do but implies writing reviews of movies, books and what not for the web sites. You are free to express your ideas doing it in your own genre reviewing items whenever you have time.
Except jobs listed above there is a lot of other opportunities for earning money on the web. For example, you can run your own website or join some affiliate programs – it’s up to you to decide. But remember that web development industry is always open for everyone to try hand at earning online.
About Cliff Jensen :
Cliff Jensen is the owner of DesignAwardGallery. DesignAwardsGallery.com is the richest CSS Websites Catalog which provides you with the most ingenious and stunning CSS web designs for any purposes. Feel free to share and promote your creative CSS designs by adding them to the DesignAwardsGallery collection of best CSS websites.
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Excellent list, Cliff. But most of the jobs you listed above require (certified) expertise, unless one is really very popular in his field already. But anyways, nice info.
hoho. its good tips. I like it.
I like web reviewer. Thanks for great list ^_^
@Chetan,
I think so, but you can be doing these without a Certificate too if you’re confident with what you do satisfy your client and your client feel comfortable with that. Not a big deal.
@zawzal,
Yea, Cliff has very great point here! Keep coming back for other great post.
Thanks for commenting here zawzal!
@clickkkdotcom,
Yea, web reviewer will be the most flexible job between the 5 web design jobs above. So if you would like to make money online without any stress, web reviewer will be the most suitable 1.
Thanks,Chetan!
I agree that a certain expertise may be required, but every company has its own rules and some of them estimate worker’s skills first. It depends on an employer.
Thank you all, I appreciate your every opinion!
Nice list of web designer jobs that make money online.
what about web developer ?