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What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"?
gilgongo writes "It's more than 10 years since people started making a living writing web page markup, yet the job title (and role) has yet to settle down. Not only that, but there are different types of people who write markup: those that approach the craft as essentially an integration task, and those that see it as part of UI design overall. The situation is further complicated by the existence of other roles in the workplace such as graphic designer and information architect. This is making recruitment for this role a real headache. So, how do you describe people who 'do HTML' (and CSS and maybe a bit of JavaScript and graphics manipulation)? Some job titles I've seen include: Design Technologist, Web Developer, Front-end Developer, HTML/CSS Developer, Client-side Developer and UI Engineer. Do you have any favourite job titles for this role?"
Rude names. :)
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Web Monkey?
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
Propaganda as Nebulous as Apple's or Microsoft's
Unemployed? Seriously, expand your skill set and learn the backend and basic services so you can start to call yourself a full fledged "web developer."
House wives with spare time between cooking and putting the kids to bed make geocities pages with HTML. My advice is to not rely on something like that for your livelihood.
My work here is dung.
As in, "Why am I paying you to do this? My newphew can do that!"
"My God...it's full of trolls!"
Everyone assumes web design is as simple as it was 15 years ago, when it reality it has gotten extremely complex. People just tell you to make a web page do something, and they expect you to work like a good little monkey.
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
Even a webmonkey does some backend work.
I just call them MySpace users.
No, a secretary is a " personal CEO satisfaction manager"
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice - Grey's Law
... they used to call them, 'The people in the basement that we'd rather not deal with'.
Now, they call them 'Indian contractors'.
Have gnu, will travel.
Web... Spider... get it?
I'm here all week, try the veal, don't forget to tip the waitresses.
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)
XSLT? hahahahaha
That's Assistant to the Fry Chef.
this is just a placeholder till i send back my real sig from the future.
Was that just a clever way for you to get twice the carma?
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
Errata:
"Carma"
Should be:
"Karma"
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
or for those with advanced skills: Commander of Visual Notepad.
I suggest the title Web Monkey
I for one welcome the dogma of our recursive commenting Karmic overlords.
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Remember when all the lady webmasters used "web diva"? Back when HTML coding was the coolest job around, 1996 or so.
Yo dawg, I heard you like the Ackermann function, so OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
Funny you should say that, seeing how "efficiently" you've designed your homepage...
Erratum:
"Errata:"
Should be:
"Erratum:"
Them HTML-Doers
Doesn't HTML mean "How To Mow the Lawn"?
- I live the greatest adventure anyone could possibly desire. - Tosk the Hunted
I mean, really, html as a 'skill'?
HTMLers.
Moving along...
Or just HTML-F*ckers.
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Webero :)
here ends what some neis
Clearly no need to edit the subject line there.
Seriously, what kind of reaction was expected?
We should be able to mark the original article as "Troll" or "Flamebait"... I can never remember which means what, but then what do I know? I just do HTML.