Get a Web Development Job
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Web developers are responsible for the behind-the-scenes code and programming of Web sites and Web-based services. While the edges are often blurred in Web positions, Web developers typically have a more technical orientation than Web designers, who focus on a site’s look and feel, and information architects, who focus on sites’ organization. Web developers’ projects vary widely, ranging from bare-bones active Web pages to complex, multilayered Web applications that might power an ecommerce site.
Median Salary
$68,125
Education Requirements
Web developers typically have at least a bachelor’s degree, even if they have gained much of their know-how from on-the-job experience. Web developers need to have broad-based knowledge, encompassing areas such as usability and interface design; basic Web skills, such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript; Web 2.0 skills, including Ajax; server-side technologies, such as ASP, PHP and Ruby on Rails; databases such as MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle or IBM’s DB2.
telios
10 months ago
2 comments
I've been working in the IT industry for a few years and from what I've gathered, the best way to work out your salary is mainly determined by the 3 main deciding factors:
* Geographic demand - although in IT, it's not AS big as say in retail, but most want websites developed in the same geographic region and this normally reflects the pay rate of developers.
* Skilled workers available - the less skilled workers that are available, the more employers are willing to pay for skilled employees, like bidding on goods on ebay.
* Experiance - yes not education, but experiance; this is a big requirement as many employers wont even touch collage or TAFE students without something to show. Just make a decent modern website (good idea to utilize MVC design with a backend of some sort, hint google 'web 2.0'), which should demostrate more then any resume can. Those with experiance, usually the more you have (assuming you have naturally progressed more competancy with the industry along with the experiance), the more employers are willing to win the bid over you.
But if you are getting into the industry, make sure you leave or finish working with the first company in good terms and make sure you can use them as a referee as they are your door into a good company and a nice salary. ;-)
jennifer6278
about 1 year ago
2 comments
Who wrote this article? I am wondering, because I am trying to do a school project and I need to site the source.
amitgai123
about 1 year ago
2 comments
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