Do Web Developers Need to Learn Photoshop in 2018?

hey guys mailbag vlog I'm gonna answer a couple questions that were put to me in the private messaging don't worry your names shall be anonymous so hey Steph my name is I had a quick question for you about freelance dev work if you got a minute to land your advice I'll give you two minutes I'm currently a j s+ Python full stack developer good skills but I'm brushing up on my PHP and we're pressed so I can start looking for my first freelance clients do you find the code alone is sufficient for most jobs or do you also create graphics and work in the adobe world eg Photoshop Illustrator etc in other words do I need to take time initially to learn how to create graphics or is that just more of a cherry on top of that that I can work on as I go thanks for your help in advance keep cranking out the videos first of all yeah so you know your Jas and your Python full stack fantastic now for you to go into PHP WordPress I'm sure you're finding it pretty easy right that's once you know your basics then all the languages and so on become pretty easy to get into and I assume that you're learning PHP WordPress cause you see that's where the jobs are right that's where the jobs are I would be doing Python j/s full stack maybe if I was doing startup work maybe I had a very particular application where I wanted to leverage some aspects of Python perhaps that that I needed to work with perhaps that you had an AI layer you want to work with or something I don't know so yeah so as typical when people actually get out there in a real world they find that PHP and WordPress however boring it may be or seem to be there's a huge amount of demand and as I said before when you got tons of work and you're making great money and you're in huge demand also the work becomes more fun anyhow so do you need to be graphically inclined turn to creating graphics for websites not really I don't think so I think if you have the WordPress seeming skills and the PHP skills then you don't really need to become an expert if Photoshop Pro Skater anything like that these days if you're working with clients chances are there have they will have a local already for their business in terms of the aesthetics there's certain looks if you will certain structures to user interfaces and modern websites that we know work now you know whether it be you know banner based or top banner with one or two columns this is the typical layout so what I would suggest that you do is when you first see your client you sit down with them and you ask them about the artwork do they have a logo do they have a color scheme for their business they might they might likely do and based on those answers then you can show them common template so we have a two called layout we have the front page we might go with panels etc etc so just show you know some nice-looking templates or show them some some nice size say what sites do you like and then you could take it from there you got to try to look at the design aesthetic from 20,000 feet if you understand what it means so that you can sort of see the grid behind of a design and what you see that the grid is as I said it's pretty consistent it's either panels based or it's maybe one top pattern with left column and right column usually the on your side the left-hand column would be the main content column on the right you have your your menus items but again it can be flipped whatever show the client raw templates so they can take a look at that and then what you would do is then have them provide photos or or imagery related to their particular business so know the days of having to be a graphic designer in terms of web development are long gone it's good to understand basic design principles like alignment no more than two fonts per page use a white space I like to describe white space I've for many years I describe it to people as breathing room you want to give your sight breathing room again simple clean layout with nice-looking images nice-looking photos that don't require major work or preparation is the key to success with these websites if you need to do some image prep then you could either partner with somebody on that hire somebody on that they may be able to provide that but the need for high end Photoshop work and illustrator work this is like old school went designed that you don't see too much these things I hope that makes sense so know that short answer is no don't worry about it just do it underneath tender basis the more valuable skill set is your back-end coatings knowledge that is for sure that is for sure big time your ability to write code implement WordPress add plugins lock it down strip up a theme etc that's what a huge value is and you could just they may have a graphic designer I mean Oh graphic designer we just you know prep a couple images really quickly again modern day graphic excuse me modern a web design doesn't require photoshop skills I get used to for the most part next question I stat first of all well done thank you for your vlogs the information knowledge is shares antastic the reason writing excuse me the reason for writing this message is your opinion in choosing a specialization for a job for a living a little bit about me I'm 40 years old live in Europe working in logistics industry for at least 15 years lately I took my university degree in computer science trying to make a career change towards the IT field as you know a degree in C has a little bit of everything math algorithms network ila tryouts visual very basic knowledge is some programming language like C SQL PHP HTML CSS Python GS and some project management etc having no real work experience or internships it seems very hard to apply for jobs so I decided to specialize in one specific field thing and master iam that's a good strategy being 40 years old doesn't let me being 40 years old doesn't let me a lot of choices as I speak from the aspect of time the choices that came in my mind in web development or big data with analytics I know it's a matter of personal taste but I asked for your opinion in that what would you choose any other suggestions thanks in advance for your efforts when I read some of these emails people are just typing out quick messages sometimes they don't proofread sometimes English is a second language so and sometimes I just mess up as I'm reading it so my apologies but I think we all understand what the question is so he wants to know at his age whether he should get into the web development field or big data analytics if you're doing bait that big data analytics that's assumes you have a scientific background you have a background working I'm just shaking working at a logistics industry for 15 years it's not precise enough for me I'm not sure what that means logistics I don't know if you would have the background to be able to analyze big data so when you get into big data you're getting to data sciences there's a need that you're gonna have to have supporting skill sets that go with that right so if you're doing data sciences you have to understand their sciences before you can start writing the code to process all this data and what imagine the same thing is with big data analytics perhaps you have to look into that now that being said I think the major issue is about with big data analytics you're going to be looking for a job working for larger corporations I would imagine or businesses that do big data analytics I don't think they would be hiring freelancers to do that although I have not looked into that there really doubt it I think this is a job this is a career path if you will that requires or ends with you getting a job which is cool there's a lot of advantages to that on the other hand if you do web development you have the flexibility of both getting it to freelance being a hired gun or go working for a web developer studio though web development has been around for Allura since the my knees it's still huge lots of demand for it and that's not going away anytime soon and you know before you start thinking web development so that's real to you 15 years is relative a year 15 20 years rather for any type of business or industry so it's still pretty early stages in that regard although the role of a web developer as i've mentioned other vlogs has changed over the years in the 90s is very design centric lots of Photoshop work kalasa illustrator work and then in the early 2000s it became much more coding front-end coding and then later on it became front-end coding with usability you had to become very good with usability not just the user interface and way look but also usability became much more involved in it was always there but the web professional over time separated more and more from a traditional graphic artists role to give you a little backup background knowledge on this in the early days most of the web designers were graphic designers who were doing web design on the site so they just kind of looked at the aesthetic the visual appeal of a site they didn't get into usability they didn't get into functional layout it was all very it was experimental a lot of web sites were just brochures online but as the industry matured and as the technology became more advanced search in web design technology and web development technology the graphic designer role as a web designer slowly grew further and further apart whereas now very separate things so the great front-end or professional front-end web developer they they're very they're not only schooled in the coding this html5 css3 and JavaScript but the Alice understand usability or they also understand user interface design they also understand how to make these designs responsive and functions something like graphic designers don't ever touch on something that 1990s web devout designers barely ever touch on any of these things so coming back from my tangent web design as a career versus data big data analytics it's as you said it's a personal choice thing I think with the web development stack you're gonna have more flexibility in the type of jobs and work that you can do more different types of companies big companies small companies doing freelance work setting up at your own web design studio or web development studio so you have that flexibility with the Web Design where's big data you're looking at more likely than not working for very large organizations which has its own pros and cons but you you have less flexibility there so it depends what you want to do depends what you want to do I think it's flexibility versus perhaps working for large organizations but with the big data you have to look into that they may require if you have some sort of supporting skill set a degree to go along with that but you said you you you are doing CS your CS degree C that's the thing with a lot of the universities they trying to expose you a lot of university programs they're trying to expose a whole bunch of different things and then as you will learn once or you already know if you're in the field you really learn your craft getting in there right doing the work and working with what clients and building actual projects and stuff but again let me emphasize before you get into project building you should do your foundation your core training first that's why I structure my studio of course is that way it speeds up the whole process of learning and it will just make you a much better programmer much more quickly so yeah so that is my two cents on that all right this is an unusual question from two weeks ago it's a question about boxing so I mean just when you can shut it off now if you don't want to hear the answer but this is interesting I haven't read this yet but I'm going to read it I've had a restrictive isolated upbringing my father's a control freak as a result of this I've always suppress my emotions they become depressed and though I would still be able to go for the go on in life but I hit some plateau I peaked in depression I just couldn't focus anymore in school I quit college three times started looking for an alternative route at the same time five years ago and I came to know about Floyd Mayweather and his style of fighting and resonated a lot with me so I became very interested in passionate about studying the style elusive slips slicks sharp smooth defensive yeah Floyd is a master boxer master boxer if you're not into boxing if you're not into the art of boxing Floyd style could look really boring because he's so slick and he's doing all kinds of subtleties with his body positioning and so forth that if you're a boxer if you have a boxing background you can appreciate anything wow this guy's really good but if you're not into the sport you don't understand it can look kind of boring but yeah if you're gonna be a boxer fight like Floyd you don't wanna get your head bashed in the problem is that because of my restrictive up ring yet I got some anxiety which overstates my fear of brain damage I am constantly second doubting decision to box or not I will shadow box and tell myself yes I'm gonna do it the moment then moments later I will see some brutal sparring on the internet and with one kid totally destroying the other I think this is just brutal it is brutal and when you see that as because you got a jerk of a coach and a jerk of a print a training partner training partners are there to help you develop as a fighter not to beat the hell out of you doesn't mean it can't be stiff good strong fighting but when you're a beginner and you're sparring you should be not trying to knock each other's heads off you should be trying to work out the technique and flow there's got to be some contact and as you become more and more advanced they should become better it's gonna get more serious but again you should inspire to try to destroy your opponent you're there to learn you're your sparring it's a training it's a type of training although pressure putting pressure is a huge part of the training but don't knock each other's heads off so if you have a jerk let's just try to knock your head off don't fail with it because you're not gonna you know you'll get something out of it but you're gonna get you know you're gonna get hit unnecessarily another thing don't be an idiot wear a head head gear when you spar wear a mouthpiece I see some tough guys who decide to not gonna wear headgear but the world's best fighters the Tyson's and the Ollie's and the Mayweather's and even the sluggers when they train they wear headgear and then wear 16-ounce gloves you know so to protect their hands and to protect your partners from you know getting dis cuts and serious damage again their training partners not training opponents so if you see a school where this is destroying each other and the coach lets that happen don't load it at school because you're not gonna learn well you'll learn but you're gonna get unnecessarily brutalized for no good reason but that being said when you're boxing it's boxing you're not playing badminton and I got my nose broken two times boxing because it has sheis things happen Kamiya kids you know get in there boom boom boom and you know punches are flying and it wasn't malicious it just happened I was sparring you know a really serious fighter at the time and I was still learning my craft and I just made stupid mistakes but I was unusual I I didn't see too many people getting into those broke so but somebody considered but you can get headgear that will protect you but it makes it harder to breathe with that kind of head gear this thing you know so let me finish that mostly I was see some brutal spy on the internet on the internet with one kid totally destroy any other and I think this is brutal I am NOT going to do this or I might think boxing is only for the intellectually misfortunate and society all kinds of thoughts I've been in the boxing gym on four or five occasions what discouraged me is that I would get a mild headache that lasted for a few days every time after spine move yeah I went to the doc he said it wasn't anything serious but I thought maybe that was assignment bodies tell me I'm not built for it I have pretty small skull please give me some advice well if you're getting headaches already then I would probably refrain from boxing boxing that means you're getting hit in the head you may want to change your style if you can not get hit so much I was kind of like a boxer puncher type I didn't get hit too often and I would always move and slip and slide but if you get and I never got headaches but if you're getting headaches already you know the brain is a thing you don't want to damage its it you better to damage your hands your knees not that that's fun but the brain is the last thing you want to mess up so if you're already getting headaches there's other ways that you can work out your your aggressions other ways you can calm your mind you might want to try judo Jiu Jitsu you know try stuff that doesn't walk your hand if if I was going to whack anything the last thing you want to whack his two head because it's the brain you know you don't want to mess with your brain and you seem like oh like a smart guy well-written and yeah so don't don't smack your head out especially if you're starting to get headaches already I would say try another sport that doesn't damage your brain or or maybe spiral with sparring partners where you agree not to like each other very hard if they say you know you're you're a or something because you don't want to take shots at a head you know let's forget about it they're idiots because you know you're gonna box for X number of years I don't know if you wanted to come pro or not chances are even if you come pro 80% of professional fighters get brain damage that's one of reasons I think I decided not to go pro as a fighter because one of the reasons anyways because I don't want to get brain damaged I said you know what I might have some ability but there's an 80% chance I'm gonna wind up with some permanent damage so it's not worth it because the boxing career is done you know if you're lucky in your 40s that's the oldest you can get I don't know how young you are but then you've got many more years in terms of professional life lifes I was talking to one of my uncle's who was actually a very high level basketball player he was one of the best in Canada in a day in like 10-15 years after his career I would run into people who had recognized my last name its age you know blah blah blah and he was a type of guy he would score I think was average 33 or 33 33 to 34 points per game so he was really good but what happened when he was 18 or 19 he was going for the Olympics some guy jumped on his back and destroyed his spine and so I asked him a few years back I said uncle I said you know if she had to do it over again would you do the basketball again and you know this guy was a newspaper all clippings and he was pretty pretty pretty big you know for that time anyway and he said no he said because for a few years of fame fleeting Fame it wasn't a huge star anything but a few years of glory will say he says he has permanent painters or hands from you know permanent back problems to him it wasn't worth it so he was actually one of the reasons why I decided not to take the boxing to the next level because I got to a point with my boxing where if I wanted to go to the next level I had to go like full-time like they couldn't had to go hardcore and to become a professional athlete you have to become like a warrior monk that's all you can do in terms of diets in terms of your sleeping habits everything so I wasn't willing to to do that and I wasn't going to get brain damage and then when I got my nose straight in to help trust me it so crooked now but it was far worse before when I got my nose straightened out they had to break in to three places two or three anything was and the doctor said the surgeon said no more boxing for you knows you know pretty weak at this point so I said I forget I'm ugly enough not gonna do it so all right long story that's long to finish off this long story if you're getting headaches I would suggest not doing it so much anymore or maybe asking your sparring partners to not smash your head in it's not necessary to take a heart beating now yeah light light hits and stuff whatever but if you are getting hit with light hits and stuff your body's telling you something but if you guys are folks hey listen you know don't lock my head off we're being nice here we're trying to learn technique right because if you guys try to knock your head off and knock you out first you know first of all that's not a great way to fight but it's hard to practice those tricky techniques and stuff if you're always worried you're gonna get your head knocked off that's why I use parting partners or partners you know you want to get it you know you want to get some shots because you want it to be you know some why some what's realistic but you want to be able to train some of those interesting slips and those moves and you won't be able to train them properly if you just worry about the guys always gonna try and rip your head off right so keep that in mind that's my advice you know health is much more important I rather be as might one of my expressions I rather be healthy and poor I rather be healthy and poor then sick and rich I'd rather be healthy and poor than sick and rich in fact I have some friends of mine who were bike couriers their entire lives you know I just did bike courier bubble type guys but you know what they're like they're much older than me Eric in her late 50s some of these guys friends of friends you know and they're super healthy because they biked their entire careers every day's five days a week super healthy and I know these 50 old guys got money and their constant pain and overweight dinner having health problems meanwhile this poor dude a couple of them they biked over place their little bike 30 miles and they're like in their late 50s no problem for them so personally I rather be the healthy poorer biker guy than the rich guy who's got all kinds of heart problems and all kinds of other health problems so yeah don't don't destroy your body because you only have one and that brain once you damage it can't be repaired

Channel: Stefan Mischook

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Keywords: photoshop skills for web developers, web developer design skills, full stack developer design skills in 2018

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Length: 24min 29sec (1469 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 03 2018