What are the Skills needed for a Web Developer?
Firstly, let us understand who a Web Developer is?
A web developer or programmer is someone who takes a web design — which has been created by either a client or a design team — and turns it into a website. They do this by writing lines and lines of complicated code, using a variety of languages.
Skills every Web developer should have are:-
Knowledge about Designing
Before starting anything even coding, we need to visualize the web design in mind. Web designing generally lay down in web designers’ area but still, a good web developer must have some basic knowledge about web designing and web designing services. Web developers must know about mobile-friendly websites, they must have knowledge about responsive websites for all sizes and screen shapes.
Front-End Web Developing
There are 3 basic technical terms and skills which lay under front-end developer i.e. HTML, CSS, and JS. Without HTML and CSS knowledge you can’t be a web developer.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard language of every web page and internet. HTML is the basic coding and building block of the internet. HTML basically creates a web page on the internet.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a presentation of HTML. It makes the whole thing look pretty. CSS are bricks for fonts, colours, and layout of the website and translates HTML into a visualization.
JS
JavaScript (JS) takes care of website behaviour and interaction with the audience. JS and jQuery make the websites interactive and functional.
WordPress
Word Press is the free management or hosting tool in web development services. Over more than 25% of websites are functioning through it. Word Press is very easily manageable as it has plugins and automated technology.
Basic Knowledge for Backend Development
Even if you are working as a front-end developer, you must have some basic knowledge about back-end web development. This includes working of Servers, APIs, and SQL & Database.
Servers: You don’t need to build your own servers but still require knowledge about how they work and how to handle them.
APIs: Front end and back end development interacts through Application Programming Interfaces (API). You must know how they interact.
SQL & Database: Websites store information by using databases. You must have information about their working.