10 Most Sought-after Skills in Web Development
By Rab Bakari • Oct 28th, 2008 • Category: Tech
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. Here are the 10 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. READ Full story here!
Author: Glen Stansberry breaks down these 10.
1) Framework knowledge
2) widget development
3) Custom CMS (Content Mamagement System) Themes
4) CMS Customization and PlugIn Development
5) PhotoShop PSD files to XHTML/CSS services
6) JavaScript PlugIn creation
7) FaceBook/MySpace Applications
iPhone Applications
9) eCommerce web integration
10) Adobe Flash and Apple actionscript knowledge.
Form a team with these experienced troops .. then you WILL get paid!
What about AJAX? Ajax is a set of technologies being used together, just as “LAMP” is a shorthand referring to Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. But back to Ajax!
Ajax, which stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML, is comprised of the following technologies:
HTML + CSS for presenting information
JavaScript for dynamically interacting with the information presented (points 5 + 6 will have you covered!)
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