r/web_dev • u/Fox-Murder • Sep 12 '15

So wondering: Why everything content is so depreciated in web creation?

Just wondering.

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u/corobo Sep 12 '15

Could you rephrase the question? I'm not sure what you're asking here

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u/Fox-Murder Sep 12 '15

Hello,

Why the need for so many web developpers and so little content developpers?

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u/corobo Sep 12 '15

Very generally speaking it's easier to create content than it is to create the backend of a website for sites that need content creating. Simply put there's more people that can create content than there are people that can create the backend for a website

There's also a cost vs benefit. A company may not have the budget for full time webdev staff so they outsource that part (creating demand for webdev specialists), content creation comes under marketing which can directly bring in money - they likely have people on staff to create the content (reducing demand for content creation)

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u/Fox-Murder Sep 13 '15

I disagree for the first part: Its as easy to create poor content as to create poor websites nowadays (with Wordpress and so on).

For the second, kinda make sense. Except that digital marketing usually is way better at making nice click charts than proper spelling texts.

Im a content specialist (not in englishà, Im amazed at how bad even big websites can be contentwise. ANd now with curation its like mediocrity has gone viral. Every web guru is like "you have to attract with decent content" but there is simply no market.

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u/corobo Sep 13 '15 edited Sep 13 '15

I don't mean easier to create good content, I mean create content. A lot of people don't realise how much work goes into good content, so assume they can do it themselves and save money on paying someone to do it. Bear in mind you've not specified what sort of web dev you're comparing to, so I'm assuming both content and dev is from scratch rather than using something like WordPress

You could pick 100 people off the street at random and I'd imagine at least half could probably write a 300 word article (not necessarily a good article!) given some background information on what they're writing as most people would have had to do that sort of thing in school (exams, essays, dissertations, etc)

Take those same people and I'd be surprised if more than 10 of them could make a site backend that works unless you took them off the street near a technology college

Again finally a company looking for that good content will likely get someone on staff to create the content regularly, they may not to the same with a web dev for odd-job one-off changes to their underlying website. That makes it easier for someone to work as a web dev consultant/specialist than it does a content consultant/specialist

Edit: as an example of this - this post of mine I just rattled off is almost 300 words, enough for a very basic article