I'm not a web designer, but I have some education in it. My primary specialty is security. While things might have looked/felt better 10 years ago, security has always been an issue with website development. PHP has been the reason for a good portion of exploits over the past few years due to webshells and unpatched vulnerabilities, and this was prior to the most recent large PHP vulnerability. This also isn't including the largest portion of exploits being due to memory allocation/leak vulnerabilities that new languages are continually made to resolve. I could go on in regards to the increasing level of security requirements brought on with advances in technology, and those are due to the increasing amount of exploits being discovered, but at the end of the day the reason web technology advances is because technology as a whole advances. Now does it need to keep looking shittier and shittier? No, but they need somebody to design the looks for these websites as the march of progress carries on.
This and it's a job position that doesn't require any actual skill to do. Every person that made a Geocities page or a website in the mid-to-late 2000s is a web designer. Literal children can do these people's job better than them.Corporate wants it to look cool on tablets and phones. Desktop? What's that????
I'm guessing this.
Is Craigslist privately owned?
Basically everything design that is not art, illustration, or advertising-oriented is like that. No one rides the NYC subway and thinks of Massimo Vignelli.
My dad was a maintenance man for a company. He kept all the equipment in working order and fixed anything that broke. Someone bought the company and was looking to make cut backs. The new boss made my dad redundant because nothing ever broke down. Why pay a maintenance guy if nothing breaks down? They learned very quickly that nothing broke down because it was all being proactively maintained. Shit started breaking down a couple of months after they fired him. They were too proud to re hire him again so they just paid contractors to come in and fix things for significantly more than it would cost to pay the wage of a maintenance guy. They ended up going bankrupt a couple years later.
I like it. It is nice to look at and meets all of the WCAG 2.1->3.0 accessibility standards.
Wife's been bitching about youtube for the past month. I just stuck Freetube on her laptop and she's shut up and is perfectly happy, she doesn't even have to learn anything new.
I wouldn't say it doesn't take any skill, JS and React are pretty robust these days and there is a lot to learn, but I would say the skill level for web development is lower than that of other SWE jobs. That being said web development is sort of the most forward facing and publicly pushed type of developer job, so the market is oversaturated.
Because Craigslist, unlike YouTube, is not filled to the brim with scripts upon scripts. Craigslist, up to a point, follows a very basic HTML code
<HTML>
<Head>
<Title>Website Title</Title>
</Head>
<Body>
Literally where everything goes
</Body>
</HTML><HTML>
<script></script>
<div>
</div>
<head>
fuck-ton of scripts and dividers and class tags
</head>
<body>
forget it, you're looking at the belly of the beast
</body>
</HTML>
