Career Overview
 Web development is a blanket term that can be used to cover all the people
who plan, build, and manage a given website—which can include everyone from
product and project managers to writers, designers, information architects,
programmers, and database administrators. Web development professionals are charged with
nothing less than conceiving, designing, building, programming, populating with
content, branding, marketing, supporting, and managing websites.
The Web developer's is a 24/7 world. The Web developer contends with server
migrations, download times, and site crashes in a virtual space driven by
databases. The Web developer's Holy Grail is to optimize user experience to
drive e-commerce sales, website-content subscription purchases, or online ad
click-throughs (or whatever else is the primary strategic goal of a specific
website).
Web developers typically work either as part of an in-house
staff, professional service, consulting organization, or on a contract basis.
At smaller organizations, the Web developer will wear a variety of hats; at a
larger organization, his or her role will be better defined.
Courses of Study in Web Development
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