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Web Designers vs. Web Developers (Infographic - Humor)

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With a median salary of $47k, I'm pretty sure they -can- afford that razor. ;)

I think it's interesting that it says there are so many fewer design jobs than programming ones. I would have thought they were equal, or even skewed the other direction.

I'm a developer that wishes he had a tiny bit of design talent. What design I can do is ALL hard work and not from an innate talent at all. It's quite frustrating for me to be able to do all of it except the pretty bits. At least, do it well.

I empathize deeply. I wish I had more design skill than I do, and while I tend to do better than any other programmers I've worked with, I am a far cry from a real designer. The designs that I do manage to eke out are a massive effort.

I am glad that the one thing this has really given me is an appreciation for stellar design. People who can take a blank canvas and build a beautiful, functional design that works is absolutely worthy of the same, or better pay than what I get for cramming values into a database.

I'm sure it's biased in that I know how to do what I do, and I don't know how to do what they do, but a good designer is worth a mint. As is a good developer.

More SEO spam.

Really? I thought it was kinda funny and worth sharing. Not necessarily something I'd consider SEO spam.

It's another of a stream of marginally humorous cartoon infographics with embed codes aimed at plastering links to a target site all across the Internet. At least this time, it was to a "Design your own Flash website" site, and not to a student loan broker.

It's succesful SEO spam, then :)

Will they archieve http://xkcd.com/810/ ?

They do look like a low bar, though.

And I dislike the way I can't trust Google anymore as a result - how long until someone breaks the arms race between Google and the SEOs? or are we doomed? Should I try DuckDuckGo or another alternative?.

Look at the embed code at the very bottom. It links to another website using terms like "free website builder". They are hoping people will copy & paste that code around. This means people will link to their website with terms that they want.

Spam has no worth, this is actually content of (subjectively) decent quality. Yes it is an SEO/SEM play, but there's only dishonor in that if it ads no value.

Like it or not search is how a LOT of information gets found these days. I'm an agency-employed Online Marketing Manger and in my book SEO should be baked into all online development, especially the quality content.

Not to get off into the semantic weeds, but this is actually SEM. Search optimization generally happens on-site and gets you indexed for the right thing. Search marketing (aka link building) generally happens off-site and gets you to rank for those terms. They are completely intertwined, but separate disciplines involving different skill sets and techniques.

My feeling is this content in particular is not spam, but will appeal to a lot of people. In fact, on first glance I thought it was funny, so I tweeted it right after reading the infographic. I only saw the embed code on a second-look after coming here and reading this glib comment.

It adds a little value now, but it reduces value for Google searches, so it's either value-neutral or value-destroying.

It's a paperclip maximizer on the web.

This type of argument leads me to believe that in the future people will complain that a strong AI isn't really sentient because we can see the algorithms and databases working.

Also, a lot of our culture is derived from previously corporate influences. Remember, Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, and created the prize to make him look better in retrospect.

Junk culture is still culture, regardless of motivation. Eventually this sort of thing will inbreed, mutate and be sincere in it's own right.

The content has nothing to do with the search energy it generates, which is what makes it spam.

Yes and no. The image itself isn't really spam, or even useful for SEM; it's really only if you use their provided 'embed code' to paste it around.

I have cargo pants, a beard, and I brought my own keyboard to work; I thought it was funny. I make like 30% less than the median web programmer wage, that part wasn't that funny.

I need a female version of this graphic!

But I totally relate to it otherwise.

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