Your day-to-day duties might include:

• meeting clients to discuss what they want their site to do
• preparing a design plan
• deciding which branding, text, colours and backgrounds to use
• laying out pages and positioning buttons, links and pictures using design software
• adding multimedia features like sound, animation and video
• testing and improving the design and site
• uploading the site to a server

You could work from home, in an office or at a client's business.

With experience, you could specialise in a particular area, like e-commerce or move up to a more senior role like lead programmer or project leader.

You could also move into other IT fields, like systems analysis or IT project management.