Who Earns More In Naija: The Application Developer Or Web Designer/develper

in developed countries
web designer's are regarded as code monkeys by core developers
because of the inferiority of level of complexity a web designer has to face,
but in naija , it seems this downlooked folks are charging blood for their services.
talk of the millions u have to pay for a 'website' -
( website(naija) : some mindless hack slapped together by some experimental technophile
                                      with mediocritic 
                                          easthetic appeal, basic functionality subpar international ranking)

Kambo,

As a web developer, I take offense to the statements you have put forth, whether or not they are yours.  The fact is that, be it a windows app or an online app, the business rules don't make a lick of sense if there is no interface associated with it.  It's, as I tell people, like a plane.  It can be tricked out 7 ways from sunday, but without a pilot, it is not getting off the ground (unless of course it is an unmanned aircraft, but that's not my point ).

Back to the issue at hand, based on what I have found out, I don't think naijans in naija are charging that much for a website, be it a regular site or an app.  Prices I have heard (and blv me, I have asked lots  ) range from N15,000 to N80,000 *on average*.  Only a people or 2 have charged (assuming they were telling me the truth) N1million or more.  Granted, there are those who have put the web developer/designer to shame, the same though can be said of the app developer who has written bloated code, crappy code, or code that hasn't been unit tested.  I keep telling people that there is a science to web development.  The problem is that not all appreciate who people do until they get to know it from a distance, not from a 15,000 mile perspective.

Back to the statements you have made (because I just can't resist when someone talks without thinking  ), I will say this in conclusion: though the web designer/developer may be at the bottom of the food chain, without them, no web app would be what it is.

At the end of the day, when I go buying a book on amazon, all I care about is that the site downloads fast, I find the book I want, the purchasing/browsing process be pleasant and that the book gets to my doorstep.  I could care less about the JAVA/PHP/JSP, etc that made it possible.  Damn it, I just want the site to look good 

As always, my 2 cents.

Generally, I wod say most web designers in Nigeria are jokers and these jokers have circulated the idea that a website can

go for N15,000, making people not to appreciate your intent of good quality service when u bill 60k or 80k.  They do not
understand that the sites at 15k generally down play their business or personal worth.