What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? 586
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?"
I call them.. (Score:5, Funny)
Rude names. :)
Web Monkey? (Score:5, Funny)
Unemployed? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Web Monkey? (Score:3, Funny)
Nephew? (Score:5, Funny)
As in, "Why am I paying you to do this? My newphew can do that!"
Web Monkey (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Typist (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I just call them Web Designers (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Web Monkey? (Score:3, Funny)
Web monkey is a good entry position title.
If they are especially clever, they might be promoted to Code monkey.
If they are especially bad, they might be demoted to to Trunk monkey.
Re: Nephew? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Screwed? (Score:5, Funny)
Where I used to work ... (Score:5, Funny)
... they used to call them, 'The people in the basement that we'd rather not deal with'.
Now, they call them 'Indian contractors'.
Spider (Score:3, Funny)
I'm here all week, try the veal, don't forget to tip the waitresses.
Re:Spider (Score:3, Funny)
Web... Spider... get it?
No.
Re:Underqualified? (Score:2, Funny)
XSLT? hahahahaha
Re:Screwed? (Score:3, Funny)
That's Assistant to the Fry Chef.
Re:Screwed? (errata) (Score:5, Funny)
Was that just a clever way for you to get twice the carma?
Re:Screwed? (errata) (Score:5, Funny)
Errata:
"Carma"
Should be:
"Karma"
Commander Notepad (Score:3, Funny)
or for those with advanced skills: Commander of Visual Notepad.
Re:Screwed? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Screwed? (errata) (Score:3, Funny)
I for one welcome the dogma of our recursive commenting Karmic overlords.
Re:Screwed? (Score:1, Funny)
Remember when all the lady webmasters used "web diva"? Back when HTML coding was the coolest job around, 1996 or so.
Re:Screwed? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Screwed? (errata) (Score:4, Funny)
Erratum:
"Errata:"
Should be:
"Erratum:"
A la Mason Williams... (Score:1, Funny)
My Yard Service (Score:3, Funny)
"Typist" (Score:3, Funny)
I mean, really, html as a 'skill'?
Nothing to see here (Score:2, Funny)
HTMLers.
Moving along...
Hypertextophiliacs. (Score:3, Funny)
We call em (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Screwed? (Score:1, Funny)
Clearly no need to edit the subject line there.
Mods: mark original article as Troll or Flamebait (Score:2, Funny)
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.