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Discussion on: Can I get a high-paying job with just CSS and HTML skills?

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ludwiczakpawel profile image
Paweł Ludwiczak

I think there are at least two profitable* paths you could take:

Emails

One of the ways for building email templates (newsletters, transactionals, some announcements, etc) is by writing HTML & CSS only (well, mostly). Of course there are ready-to-use templates and services providing templates and similar functionality (mailchimp, etc) but I know at least several people with their primary focus being on emails creation. Building emails, even though it's just HTML & CSS is so much different than building web sites.

I consider myself pretty experienced when it comes to HTML & CSS but at the same time it's extremely hard for me to build bulletproof email. And I think "bulletproof" is the key word here - there are tons of email clients (maybe even more than web browsers) and lots of them require very special treatment. And it's not only about the very old clients (aka IE6 of email clients) but also modern ones.

To better visualize differences between websites coding and emails coding: building emails still requires using tables for creating layout or sometimes even simple buttons.

Again, it depends on what email clients you're required to support but using tables is basically unavoidable.

And because of that, I think building emails requires very special set of skills even though it's just HTML & CSS.

Animations

There are companies/startups that care A LOT about interactive elements and how content is visualized on their pages. Very often this shares territories with animations (think of fancy landing pages with flying elements, etc). Even though there are JS libraries helping with this task, there are still people primarily focused on building these animations. And in most cases, HTML & CSS is just enough to build even pretty complex animations.


* - you asked about high-paying job but it's very subjective to determine what's high vs low paying job. That's why I chose to use word "profitable" which you can understand as simply as "paying job".

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FURGIE 📸 🧖🏾

Thank you for this! I dug a little into animations with CSS and HTML, which was a lot of fun but I definitely want to spend a whole day just creating more animations, complex ones with HTML and CSS and better understand the whole process

Thank you for such a great response, genuinely and really appreciate it!