Does Anyone Want Normal Websites?
I’ve noticed an interesting trend in the past few months – simply put, the number of normal website requests I’ve been receiving have plummeted.
Now, I’m a front-end and WordPress developer, so normal sites for me are simple 5 page brochure sites, with or without a blog, a few pieces of jQuery and possibly a few pieces of custom functionality.
It’s been almost a year since I’ve done a static HTML/CSS based website. Everything I’ve done since then has been based on some framework, whether in WordPress or CoreCommerce. Everyone seemed to want some kind of platform and CMS behind their website, which is why I became a WordPress developer.
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Amber Weinberg specializes in clean and semantic XHTML, CSS and WordPress development. She has over 10 years of coding experience and is pretty cool to work with. Amber is available for freelance work, so why not hire her for your next project?
I’ve recently finished pastravaria-alex.ro which is a simple static website with some custom php functions and some flash elements on photo gallery.
The most customers are now interested to grown theirs business not just with a simple website. Most people are interested to create online shop’s or some website’s with some online trade.
I think that actual trend is to make business online not just to have a online presence.
Anyway, keep it up with your good work
I think it’s a mix of people wanting more from their website and not wanting to pay to have minor changes done.
I’m a backend developer that works closely with a designer to provide custom CMS solutions.
Even though people are moving away from traditional ‘static’ websites, I am always amazed that most businesses still want all the same things in their website (edit pages, add listings, upload photos for a gallery, etc).
The web was always evolving, and it always will be. The ironic part? I think web developers, as people, will actually simplify. Instead of more complex job titles and appended terminology (i.e. front-end-ajax-loading-mobile-developer), I honestly believe that in 10 or so years, anyone making websites will just have to be a full-fledged programmer. Being a web developer will kinda curve back to the golden years in terms of training. All the versatile degrees will become obsolete and web developers will all be computer scientists. Just hardcore programmers choosing where to focus their attention. I once had a professor who worked with just HTML back in the mid 1990′s, something a 15-year-old could do nowadays in his sleep, and he made some impressive bank. By only 2003 or so he was teaching full-time and didn’t even think such simplistic jobs even existed anymore. I never see them when I look up job listings. All I ever see are: app developer, iphone developer, android developer, web application engineer, software specialist, intranet programmer, etc.
I disagree. HTML/CSS/wordpress is basically all I do and I stay pretty scheduled up. The demand lies on developers who specialize in semantics, clean code and validation.