ObscureCoder wrote

5FDP_Jekyll wrote ObscureCoder, speed is indeed correct about the amount of money that programmers/web designers make. All of the necessary information can be found at [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Now for sake for easiness I'll link you to both articles for the designated careers.
Web Developers: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Computer Programmer: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Now as you can see according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, both occupations make an average of $30+ an hour. Web Developers at $30.05 and Programmers at $35.71. Yes I do realize the data is a bit dated, however one can estimate that based off of job growth and need, the average salary would still be around the same, if not more.

Now as you can see, web developers and computer programmers are not web designers. Web developers tend to focus on the back-end part of websites, where as programmers can do anything since programming itself is quite a large field. A lot of front-end work doesn't include any programming or 'development' (excluding JavaScript).

I'm talking about front-end work, not back-end work. I'm talking exclusively about front-end work. Web developers tend to do back-end work. Please actually read who I was responding to since it's clear that you see no difference between front-end 'developer' and web developer. Lemme break it down for you:

Web designer - this usually entails front-end creation of sites using HTML, CSS and occasional JS.

Web developer - someone who does back-end website work. Sometimes they may endeavour and do front-end work however, their skillset falls further than just HTML, CSS, (and possible JS, though not required in designing at all anymore). They tend to do one of these: PHP, ASP .NET, Java, Python or Ruby. There's a lot more languages used.

Front-end developer - essentially the same thing as a web designer except they use the grandiose term of "developer" to make themselves sound important - in most cases anyway. You can only really use the word "developer" if you do client-side JavaScript or focus on doing the job of a UX engineer along with designing shit.

Since the person I was initially replying to, Whosfable, mentioned front-end work I was talking about front-end work (where if you correctly think "web designer" then you'll realize that they make less than $30/hr). To be honest, a lot of web designers actually become developers by working and eventually learning through experience how to program back-end systems effectively.

So, no, you're both wrong. Web developers tend to do a lot more than just front-end shit. Though, the career for someone who does front-end work exclusively is web designer (this field is almost dead though for reasons relating to 'frameworks' that are now a cop-out for lazy web designers - thus quite literally everyone who's learning from places like codeacademy, treehouse, aren't actually learning how to do well in their supposed field -- but that's a whole other issue that would take to long to explain fully).

Also, anyone with any knowledge of the web development field would have literally lost all faith in your knowledge upon reading your rather incorrect use of forward slashes: "programmers/web designers". They're not the same thing. Web designing is not programming (unless you mention JavaScript. However, that's grown as a language since Google really stretched V8 so now you can quite literally program client side shit for websites, server side applications, desktop applications and even mobile phone applications).

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As I've already said though, $5 hour is substantially less than any web designer would be paid.