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What are essential expertise / skill set of a web developer?

Please enlist the names of expertise / skill set, a web developer must have. This will help both beginners as well as professionals. 

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Question added by Muhammad Ahmed Raza , Web Developer & Technical Support Head , Ninja Softs (Private) Limited
Date Posted: 2015/04/21
Emad Mohammed said abdalla
by Emad Mohammed said abdalla , ERP & IT Software, operation general manager . , AL DOHA Company

In a time of economic crisis, web developers and freelancers everywhere have started chewing their fingernails. However, no matter how bad the economy worsens, there will always be work in certain booming fields of web development.

As the moderator of the Freelance Switch job board, there are certain types of jobs that are constantly in demand. Here are the10 skills that are or will be in highest demand for developers. If you are proficient in these skills, you'll be in a great position to find work and weather any economic downturn.

1. Framework knowledge

 

It seems that frameworks are one of the next big things. With the meteoric rise to fame of Rails, Django, and other MVC frameworks, developers have learned that they can build websites much faster with the help of these tools. Frameworks help you cut out much of the repetitive tasks that normal custom programming would require. Having knowledge of the top frameworks (Rails, Django, CakePHP, Symfony, and a few others), can give you a whole other dimension to your skill set.

2. Widget development

Widgets have changed how web development has been done in the past couple of years. With the advent of widgets, data has become more portable, interactive and most importantly, viral. It's in almost every web startup's business plan to include a widget or two at some point, mainly because it helps increase their audience and puts more eyeballs on their content.

 

Widget development requires knowing Javascript and/or flash, not to mention knowledge of the regular language that the parent site is built in.

3. Custom CMS themes

Designers and developers can always find work creating or customizing a CMS theme. As the popularity of CMS like Wordpress and Drupal have risen over the past years, so has the demand for creating themes for the software.

 

Many people use CMS to power their personal or business websites, so this work is always going to be around. A decent website needs a unique and usable design that reflects well on the brand behind it.

4. CMS Customizations and plugin development

CMS are great because it gives site owners with little technical know-how the ability to change aspects of their site on the fly with the help of modules. While most CMS platforms have a long list of modules to offer, many businesses and personal sites need more, and custom modules or plugins are the perfect solution.

Developers can have thriving businesses in CMS development and customization alone. Here are a few (and by no means all) of the top CMS platforms that could use plugin development and other customizations:

 

Adel Ezat Fawzy Ellozy
by Adel Ezat Fawzy Ellozy , Webdeveloper. , Saudi Arabian Maritiem Sports Federation

If you are for essential skills, you must at least to be proficient at this skills.

 

1- HTML + CSS .

2- Sever side language like (PHP or ASP or node.js ) .

3- Client side language "Javascript" .

4- Databases / DB languages ( SQL or MySql or NoSQL or MongoDB , etc.)

If you don't have one of this skills you are not a web developer .

 

Finally , learning framework it helps the developer so much .

 

 

 

Sameer Kadam
by Sameer Kadam , Software Developer , Faichi Solutiond Pvt Ltd

HTML5/CSS/JAVASCRIPT/ANGULARJS/BOOSTRAP

HTML , CSS, JAVSCRIPT etc

For Server side : PHP/ASP/JSP etc

better you check this site

https://www.w3schools.com/

And ask Allah ta'ala For better knowledge

What matters the most is to be a quick learner and with a great analytical skills, other than that he should know basic web communication and how a web page is being served (The whole request life cycle), then comes the web development tools that varies based on user preference.

 

 

Rehan Farooq
by Rehan Farooq , WEB DEVELOPER/DIGITAL MARKETING EXPERT , Upwork

The list is not necessarily in any particular order, but I tried to keep it more rudimentary stuff at or near the top. Also, many of the items overlap others, so there’s a lot of cross-over within the list. And of course the list has lots of potential for improvements (more on that below). hope this helps

  • HTML (XHTML, HTML4, HTML5)
  • CSS (2.1, CSS3, etc.)
  • JavaScript / Ajax
  • jQuery
  • Popular Frameworks (Bootstrap, HTML5 Boilerplate, etc.)
  • OOCSS / BEM / SMACSS (Modular coding methodologies)
  • CSS Grids
  • CSS Frameworks / Resets
  • Progressive Enhancement / Graceful Degradation
  • HTML and CSS Specifications (W3C / WHATWG)
  • UX / Usability
  • Website Speed / Performance
  • Developer/Debugging Tools (Chrome Dev Tools, Firebug, etc)
  • SVG
  • Responsive Web Design
  • Mobile Web Development
  • Mobile Web Performance
  • Cross-Browser / Cross-Platform Development
  • Modernizr
  • Document Object Model (DOM)
  • Cross-Browser Bugs and Inconsistencies (primarily IE6-8)
  • CSS Pre-Processors (Sass, Less, Stylus, etc.)
  • Preprocessor GUI software (CodeKit, Prepros, Koala, etc.)
  • Version Control (Git / GitHub / CVS / Subversion)
  • HTML5 APIs (Canvas, Geolocation, Video, etc.)
  • Accessibility / WAI-ARIA
  • Microdata / Microformats
  • Haml
  • CoffeeScript
  • Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
  • Back-end Templating languages/technologies (PHP, Ruby, .NET, etc)
  • Scaffolding, Task Runner tools (Yeoman, Grunt, Bower, etc.)
  • MVC Frameworks (Angular, Backbone, etc.)
  • Web Components and Polymer
  • Unit testing
  • Databases/DB languages (SQL, MySql, NoSQL, MongoDB, etc.)
  • HTML5/CSS3 Polyfills
  • Dojo / MooTools / Prototype / YUI
  • CMSs (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc)
  • Functional Programming
  • Data Formats (JSON, JSONP, XML)
  • Internationalization / Localization
  • Content Strategy
  • Offline Web Apps
  • Regular Expressions
  • .htaccess
  • Image Editing Tools (Photoshop, Fireworks, etc.)
  • Web Font Embedding / Licensing
  • SEO

Basm Allah Alrahman Alrahim

 

to answer this question I will ask2 identical questions

 

Web developer vs Web designer ? !

 

PHP & ASP.NET Vs Photoshop ( special use for web design ) ? !

 

at the beginning if you want to know what is web design and web develop and organization you can make a website using WordPress without learning any web programming language  then you will understand after that that you need to learn PHP Or ASP.NET ( or both for more Pro ) to make any CMS ( content management System ) themes and plug-ins and widget ( that a part of a web developer mission ) and learning how to make the graphic design of the theme ( that is the web design mission using photoshopp or similar software’s )

 

After a while you will understand that if you want to make some thing like Facebook , you will know that you must learn MCV ( model view controller ) , MVC is a software architectural pattern ( similar to software design patterns ) for implementing user interfaces .

 

Reference

Wikipedia MVC , Architectural Patterns , Software Design Pattern

 

Note

 

learning CMS make Google search for you and Give you the best Ranking and make you at the top of there choices 

 

ABHIMANYU PANWAR
by ABHIMANYU PANWAR , Oracle DBA/ Web Designer / Android UI Designer / E commerce Expert/ , Road Ahead Technology Private limited

For the Web Developer u need to Expertise in Fro Front End ( Atleast One ) Plus the Programming language that connect with database because the HTML Language do not talk with Database So for Web Developer Bootstrap , PHP / JAva and Mysql as Database

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