Web Development | Career | Income | Benefits | Requirements

Introduction to Web Development

It is a process of designing and developing websites.

Every new business, company, institute, school, organization and for any other purpose people need a website that will represent their work/services online.

A website is something that we look online and use according to our need.

Web development helps us to design and develop websites with the help of different Programming, markup and styling languages.

With web development skills, we are not only limited to web development but we can design or develop web applications and networks like Facebook.

As a web developer you can start your career online (This post is about online Web Development Career) as well as can do JOB for a company.

Let’s have a look at the benefits of Online Web Developer Career.

Benefits of Web Development Career

Work from Anywhere: If you start your career as a web developer online, you don’t need to stick at home or any office.

You can do your work anywhere you have an internet connection.

Let’s suppose you go to any coffee shop along with your laptop and having an internet connection, so you can do your work while you will be taking coffee at the shop.

OR

You are on a date with your someone special 😍 so you can do your work there but be careful it can bring you in trouble or you could have some punches on your face 😜 (Personal Experience 😃).

Work when you want: When you start your career online, you don’t need to stick in a time machine.

You have your own time and you can do your work whenever you want to do but it doesn’t mean to do the work too late.

In web development, you receive orders or take orders but there is always a time period in which you have to provide the completed work.

Suppose you receive an order of creating a website for a company and the company would give you 1 month to complete the order, now you have 1 month, you don’t need to work from 9AM to 5PM or 1PM to 8PM, it’s your choice, whether you work 2 hours a day, 3 hours a day or 10 hours a day, you just need to complete the work in 1 month, it depends on you that how much hours a day you work.

So it’s a good benefit.

You are your own boss: It’s also a good benefit that when you work online, you don’t need to follow anyone’s order because you’re your own boss.

Having a boss is a good thing but not always, because not every boss is good. If you are working with a boss, you can’t do extra things like learning something during working time or anything else.

The boss always has an eye on you and you always stick in 8 or 9 hours of work time and you have to complete your task on time and these all things are such a headache.

So being your own boss is really a great benefit in online career.

You work around the world: So, when you work as a web developer online, you simply work for the whole world.

You receive local clients as well as international clients.

Having clients internationally bring your personality in Global market and it’s really a great benefit because chances of getting attention from more clients would increase.

Demanding Income: When you do a job, you work on a fix salary but when it comes to online projects, you can demand good money according to your skills, experience, portfolio and work.

If you are really an expert web developer then you can charge a high amount because people need quality and an expert web developer knows how to bring awesomeness and quality to the website.

You can earn as low as $100 and as high as $10000+ in this field.

Start your own company: After getting lots of experience and projects, you can start your own company.

Many web developers do this after getting succeeded in their career, they start their own web development company, hire employees and start getting projects even more than ever before.

Online web development career is such a great option but there are some requirements which you should fulfill to take your steps into web development.

Let’s have a look on the requirements.

Things Required to Start Your Web Development Career

Passion: It is the most important thing in every field and for every work.

Passion brings interest for the work you’re doing.

If you don’t have passion then you can’t do any work for a long time, you will be bored after several days, so having passion is an important key to your success.

When you start your career, follow some professional people in your field, read their success stories and ask them to guide you, it will inspire you and also bring passion and interest inside your personality.

Time: As I mentioned above that when you start a career online, you work when you want to do but when it comes to build your skills or to learn some new things, you need a lot of time for this.

May be you will have more to learn than your time.

So before getting started, make a schedule and try to spend most of your time on building your skills and learning.

Deep Knowledge: Knowledge is a must thing that we need in every field, without knowledge we can’t get success.

As a web developer, you should have good knowledge about your field that how other are working and how they are getting more customers.

Web Development career is not only about creating websites but it’s about to bring your profile in market and get people attention towards your profile.

There are lots of sites, books and courses which you can follow to get deep knowledge about your field.

Sharp Mind: It’s not required but if you have a sharp mind then it would be great because a sharp minded person can easily generate new ideas related to its field.

Programming is not easy, you have to store a large amount of code along with the details of every code in your mind.

There will be lots of functions, methods, elements, tags, syntax and many other things in almost every language and you have to learn and practice that all properly.

So, having a sharp mind is a plus point for a programmer or web developer.

Creativity: Now, this one is really an important requirement because without creativity you can’t bring awesomeness to the website and you can’t make your customer happy.

Satisfaction is a key of success and if you can’t satisfy your customer with the completed order then you can’t run towards your successful career.

You should have a creative mind that will help you to generate ideas for color combinations, site layout, styling, functionality, user friendly style and for many other things.

Always think about creativity and create something that will make your client to say “Wow 😮”.

Professionalism: This one is also an important factor for any career.

In web development, professionalism means how you code and how you present your profile and proposal to your clients.

Coding is not just to put codes in your files but there are some proper ways to code a website like a pro.

On the other hand, presenting your profile or proposal to your client is must but it should be like a professional person.

Follow professionals in your field and you will learn how to present yourself to a client like a Pro. [We will cover this in future]

Portfolio: This is the main thing which you always need to get people’s attention towards your profile or company in the market.

Portfolio is the work you did in past with positive rating and feedback you received.

If you don’t have portfolio then start providing some free services like create a good landing, give it to people on social media or to the visitors of your website, receive feedback and generate your portfolio.

A professional portfolio can bring lots of clients.

The above 7 points are required if you want to start your career as a Web Developer. Keep one thing in mind that hard work always bring success, so keep working hard and you will have a successful career in Web Development industry.

Now, it’s time to have a look on skills that you should have to become a good web developer.

Skills Required to Start Your Web Development Career

HTML: HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language which is a base of every website.

With the help of HTML, we can structure our website, build layout and add elements.

HTML consist of Elements, Tags and Attributes.

It was first introduced in 1990 and the current standard version is HTML5 which is being used around the world.

Below is the basic structure of HTML.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My First Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is Heading</h1>

</body>
</html>

CSS: Stands for Cascading Style Sheet which is a language which helps us to add styling to our HTML pages.

The current standard version is CSS3 which has great features like animation, transitions, transform 3D, media queries and more.

Without CSS3 you can’t add styling (colors, fonts, text-styles etc.) to your webpages.

Below is the basic structure of CSS3.

selector {
property: value;
}
h1 {
color: white;
}

JavaScript: It is a lightweight programming language which we use to add functionality on our webpages.

It is used with CSS and HTML to make webpages more interactive.

JavaScript helps us to validate our forms, to make our webpage dynamic, to remove or add elements, to change styling etc.

JQuery is a library of JavaScript which helps us to add more functionality to make our webpages more interactive. Below is the basic structure of JavaScript.

<script type="text/javascript" name="myFunc">
alert("The Expertise Blog");
</script>

JSON: Stands for JavaScript Object Notation and is a process of storing data and information in a well-organized manner.

XML: Stands for Extensible Markup Language and is used to describe data.

XML is a set of rules for defining semantic tags that break a document into parts and identify the different parts of the document.

AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is used to load data at background and then display it on Webpages without refreshing the page.

It is being used by top networks like Gmail, Outlook, and Facebook etc.

PHP: Stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and is used as server side scripting language to make our page dynamic.

PHP embed with HTML codes and run on a webserver.

<!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <body>
 <h1>Expertise Blog</h1>
<?php echo "Hello World!"; ?>
 </body>
</html>

MySQL: MySQL is a Database Management System which is used on webserver along with PHP.

Database is a systematic collection of data.

MySQL is used to add, access, delete and modify new and old data on a web server.

Graphics: Photoshop, Illustrator and CorelDraw are graphics software and you should have basic knowledge of graphic designing to add more awesomeness to your webpages.

You don’t need to be a graphic designer, you just need to have basic info of using these software.

Graphic designing helps us to create images, icons, buttons and even we can design a complete website layout with Photoshop (can be converted into HTML).

Bootstrap: Bootstrap is a frond-end framework for fast web design and development.

It has HTML and CSS code templates along with components like Buttons, Forms, Tables, Navigation, Accordion and more.

Bootstrap help us to design website device ready with ease. It also contains some JavaScript extensions to add some cool functionality on webpages.

Wordpress: It is a CMS (Content Management System) which is used to create websites and blog.

It helps us to build dynamic websites and it is based on PHP and MySQL which always run on a web server, that means we need hosting to host our wordpress site or blog.

Wordpress is the #1 CMS for blogging and website purpose.

The above 9 skills are those skills which will make you an expert web developer and you will not be far away from your successful life.