Similar Job Areas
Web development is closely related to Design and Marketing jobs. After all, people or companies want to sell a product, service or idea. Having an appealing website is part of that. So, there is a need for creative people to design these web experiences. Also, there are marketing people needed to write compelling content to fill a website with live. These jobs don't require as much technical expertise, nonetheless it might be helpful.
In short, the amount of technical knowledge they required varies. Marketers can probably manage without technical knowledge, designers benefit from it while interacting with technical colleagues and developer jobs are obviously very technical.
So let's have a look at some web-related jobs.
- Marketer: write content and optimize search engine ranking
- Web designer: structure, layout and aesthetics of a website. E.g. color, typography etc. Create images and graphics with image editing software
- UI & UX designer: design user flows, easy to understand web applications and an overall good user experience
- The designer jobs above can be considered front of the frontend. They might also make applications more accessible for impaired users (e.g. blindness), understandable texts, speakers of a different language...
- Frontend developer (back of the frontend): focused on highly interactive and data-driven applications. Exchanging data with a server. Managing the user interface state.
- Backend developer: programs the server that sends the website and data from a database to the user. Data processing.
- Full-Stack developer: generalist doing the work of a back-of-the-front-end developer and a backend developer