Layout is the creation of a print or web publication, filling it with texts, illustrations, and other information. In the recent past, before the final arrival in the publishing field of the personal computer, the process of typesetting a book, magazine or newspaper took a lot of time and was quite laborious. Quite often several people were responsible for the layout of one project. Everything has changed today.
Who is the layout designer?
A layout designer is an employee of a publishing house who is responsible for the layout of materials. As a rule, a layout designer has a special or design education. All the material collected by the large creative team of the publishing house ultimately goes to the layout designer. His task is to competently and with artistic taste to place texts and headings to them, pictures and other materials, to choose fonts.
Today the tools of a layout specialist are a Macintosh-based computer and a number of graphic programs such as Adob Illustrator, In design, Corel Draw. But even in the recent past, the layout of printed publications was performed manually. The mock-up of the order was assembled from separate metal fragments - letters, white space elements and metal plates with illustrations applied to them. The result of the work was printed on paper.
The layout designer does all the work on the computer, and hands over the finished version of the layout in printed form. The result is checked by proofreaders, editors, designers and journalists. After making the necessary corrections, the layout designer finalizes the layout and electronically submits it to the printing house. On this, the duties of a layout specialist have been exhausted.
Who is the web coder?
The web designer performs the work on the creation of Internet resources - sites, blogs. The end result of the work of site designers can be seen on the Internet. However, few people know that every page of any Internet resource is a set of symbols, numbers, signs, which is usually called a code. Using browser programs, the code is converted into a human-readable web page.
The work of a site designer begins after the web designer prepares a project for a new resource, indicating the location of texts, pictures, specifying the types and sizes of fonts, and fill colors. Using the markup language, the layout designer translates fonts, pictures, tables and other design elements into a language of signs and symbols that browsers can understand. It turns out a text layout of what the designer intended. The typeset page is passed to the programmer.
To create sites, the layout designer uses text editors, as well as HTML editors, HTML, XHTML, XML markup languages, as well as browser programs to check the work done. The profession of a web designer is painstaking and requires special knowledge. However, if we consider that every second new sites appear in the virtual world, and customers want to see bright and original products, the profession of a web designer today is very popular and well paid.
