How do I become a Web Developer?
Although more vacancies are beginning to go to graduates or more experienced web developers, there are still plenty of opportunities available to find employment based on your own portfolio of work – this is your key selling tool in the field of web development. Employer’s want to see websites you have worked on before, and know what your role was. If you don’t have any formal experience, create a personal website for yourself and look for other projects you can work on to build your portfolio (for friends, local businesses, charities etc.) Your portfolio can be a live website or a CD/DVD that you take with you. It should show off your creative design skills (the overall site design), analytical ability (the structure of the information and the pages) as well as your ability to integrate technical or functional features (such as including JavaScript rollovers or discussion boards), but above all every single page must look slick, professional, be bug-free and look like a modern well de
With the internet becoming larger every year, as more and more people come online and more and more businesses build larger presences, the incentives to become a web developer become even larger. Web developers make a good salary, get to work in relatively dynamic situations, sometimes are able to telecommute, and are part of a cutting-edge movement in technology. There are many different tools available to become a web developer, and the route one takes depends on personal inclination, and what path one wishes to pursue. There are two main tracks of web development, although some people pursue both. One type of developer focuses on client-end programming, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The other type of developer focuses on server-side programming, such as PHP, Ruby, Perl, and Python. This second sort of web developer is often referred to as a web programmer. Generally to become a web developer one will have an understanding of all levels of the technical process, so that if one f
Someone emailed me recently and asked me what he should learn if he wanted to become a web developer. I forwarded his request to a mailing list I’m on, and my good friend Craig Buchek wrote the following excellent reply. There’s a HECK of a lot to learn to be able to do web development effectively. Just to be ABLE to do it, you have to learn: • HTML • CSS • PHP or some other server-side language To do it EFFECTIVELY, you’ve got a lot more to learn: • SQL • JavaScript • libraries and frameworks • a bug tracking system • Subversion or some other revision control system • IDEs • other tools • Apache • Linux command line To do it WELL, there’s even more: • usability • unobtrusive JavaScript • separation of concerns (MVC, etc) • testing • customer relations • HTTP protocol • AJAX I think that skipping PHP and the others and going straight to Rails is a good idea. Maybe. At least if he’s talented. But he’ll still have to learn a lot of things before he’s any good at creating a site. (Don’t f
What should I learn to become a web-developer? What does a Web developer have to know? Know The Basics: Whether you’ve just decided to learn web-designing or you’ve been designing pages for years, you must be aware of the building blocks of the Web: What is WWW and How it works? The World Wide Web is a network of computers all over the world and is most often called as WWW or Web. All these computers communicate with each other using a common communication standard HTTP (Hyper Text Markup Language). Web-Pages, Web Servers and Web Clients? Web Pages are the files stored on computers called Web Servers and the computers reading those files are called Web Clients. Lets understand this with an example: The page you are reading right now is stored on a computer placed in USA and that computer is called a Web Server and the computer you are using to read this page is called a Web Client. These two computers are sharing this Web Page with a standard protocol called HTTP (Hyper Text Markup Pro
