CAREER AS DEVELOPER IN WEB BASED

TECHNOLOGIES

GAURAV KUMAR
Asstt. Professor
Department of Computer Applications
Chitkara University
Rajpura, Punjab
E-mail [email protected]

India has emerged as a honeypot for the multinational companies as well as job seekers
with lot of opportunities in various sectors. MNCs in India are now rich with excellent
candidates and great talent with million dollars offshore projects.

Information

Technology is one of the demanding fields where the Indian talent is asked for their
remuneration with lot of growth prospects.

Numbers of domains are associated with the I.T. industry in the world where a
professional can bring home a thick packet of salary. Web applications development is
one of the areas where jobs as well as remunerations are endless.

Web application development is very wide domain in which a job seeker should choose
one of his interests out of abundant programming languages, scripts, tools and packages.
Obviously, one should be able to be perfect in particular programming language or tool
because it is very difficult to be expert in everything.

In Web development, there are many fields where a candidate can move with sufficient
knowledge and proficiency.

Various positions in any Web Development Company are listed here 1. Web Designer
2. Flash Designer and Game Specialist
3. Client Side Application Developer
4. Web Master and Portal Manager

1. WEB DESIGNER
Web designer is responsible for user interface design of a website. It includes designing
of logo, banners, advertisements as well as other interactive elements. Its main goal is
includes the development of user friendly, interactive and attractive designs so that user
click on most of the links or banners. Moreover, the contents are presented to the end user
in form of web pages. These interactive elements are placed in a website using markup
languages. So, a web designer should be proficient in atleast HTML which is very
common and effective markup language.

In general practice, a web designer is responsible for creating static web pages rather than
database driven dynamic web pages. Here, static web page refers to the web document
which remains same in content and layout unless the web designer changes it manually.

On other part, dynamic web pages change its structure and contents depending upon the
input given by the end-user.

For a commercial website, the following aspects are considered 1. Quality of images
2. Quality of Content or simply Effective Content Writing
3. User Friendly with simple, efficient and reliable interfaces
4. Search Engines Friendly
5. Color combination of text, background and images
6. Quick downloading of pages
7. Consistency in all web pages of the website
8. Consistency in navigation

1.1 DESIRED PROFILE

Graduate in any Discipline.

Good Communication Skills to interact directly with the Client.

Good knowledge of Designing Concepts,

Exposure to Search Engine Optimization Techniques

Awareness of the latest trend in web designing & development.

Knowledge of HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Dreamweaver, Flash, Flash

action scripts

Basic knowledge of server side scripts and database handling.

Knowledge to customize the web applications for multiple web browsers

Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla Firefox

1.2 RESPONSIBILITIES

Updating and maintaining the company Websites on regular basis.

To help in providing input and support for design functionality.

Understanding and gathering the clients requirements and designing as per

specifications

Delivering Creative Visualizations designs of Websites based on client requisition.

Designing banners/templates/logo and other media elements including.

Digital image processing using Adobe PhotoShop, Flash and other tools.

2. FLASH DESIGNER AND GAME SPECIALIST

Flash designer is responsible for developing attractive and eye-catchy animations for the
website to attract the visitors. Various 2D/3D designs are developed using Macromedia
Flash and Action Scripting. Flash animators work on professional product demos,
advertisements and animations. Creativity, good understanding of the design specification

and translation of business ideas into stunning animations/presentations is expected from

a Flash Designer.

Action script programmers work on online games, corporate intros and product
demonstrations. Good knowledge in AS2 and AS3 (Action Script) and SCORM (Sharable
Content Object Reference Model) are required to become the team member of Action
Script programmers.

A fresh animator becomes the part of a team of producers who are responsible for
producing effective and high quality games. The key job functions of the animators
include producing ultimate games from concept stage till final publishing on the website.
The game developers handle the external clients as well as in-house teams.

While working as a key resource in online game development division, the candidates get
familiar with various tools for creating wonderful animations.

2.1 DESIRED PROFILE

Graduate in any discipline

Strong working knowledge and understanding of current web standards and user
interface

In-depth knowledge and development experience with HTML/XHTML,

JavaScript, CSS, Macromedia Flash and ActionScript, and Macromedia Breeze

Excellent 2D and 3D Animation skills

Ability to visualize and illustrate storyboards.

Good conceptualization and visualization skills.

Proactive in mocking up animation ideas

Comprehensive knowledge of Multimedia Packages.

Knowledge of CorelDraw, SoundForge, Flash Action Scripting (AS 2.0 & AS 3.0)
and experience as an animator for international clients will be an advantage.

Good analytical skills and aptitude

Ability to handle projects independently as well as excellent in interacting with

the team members.

Game enthusiast

2.2 RESPONSIBILITIES

Interacting with client to analyze their requirement.

Performing quality work and add value by suggesting innovative ways of game
programming and optimization of the game through Programming.

Video and Audio Editing

Implementation of new technologies with ease

Developing a project right from visualization, analysis, design, development and

testing.

Collaborate within the team to design and develop the project.

Developing eye catchy games and animations.

Work with other designers both internally and externally to connect their
designs to our proprietary back-end technology.

Work with other designers to provide a richer audience experience through the use
of Flash, PHP and other advanced web technologies

3. WEBMASTER AND PORTAL MANAGER

The webmaster also called as the web architect web developer, the website author, or
the website administrator, is the person who is responsible for designing, developing,
marketing, or maintaining a website. Webmasters are responsible for managing all
aspects of Web operations including marketing aspects. A webmaster is also named as
Internet Specialist, Network/Web Engineer, Web Administrator or Web Application
Engineer

Webmasters typically have the expertise in various scripting languages such as PHP,
ColdFusion, Perl and Javascript. They are also expert in configuring web servers such as
Apache and serve as the server administrator. The main responsibilities of the webmaster
include the management of access privileges of different users of a website as well as the
appearance and setting up website navigation.

The Web Portal Manager works in the same way as a webmaster but his role is quite
diversified. A web portal presents information in a website from different sources in a
unified way.

Varying from the standard search engines, web portals provide other services such as

Matrimonial Services

E-mail

News

Sports

Shopping

Travels and Tour Management

Stock prices and Business Details

Career counseling and education

Information

Entertainment and many more

Some of the famous web portals are

Rediff.com

Yahoo.com

Google.com

Indiatimes.com

India.gov.in

3.1 DESIRED PROFILE

Sound knowledge of website development, and should be creative enough to

produce innovative designs and ideas.

Candidate should have rich relevant experience on weblogic or websphere

administration (dual skills have added advantage)

Experience in a production environment.

Coding (HTML / PHP / .net / ASP / Database / Java script / Joomla /

oscommerce / other shopping carts / payment integration / vBulletin / CSS etc.

Good knowledge of UNIX and Linux administration with network

troubleshooting.

Hands on Experience on CA Siteminder. CA Siteminder is a Web access

management system which is having all features to manage a website or web
portal.

Web design skills and experience

Excellent knowledge and experience with HTML at the tag level

Experience with DHTML, COM and client-side JavaScript programming

experience is also required.

Thorough knowledge of browser compatibility issues for all platforms/major

browsers is necessary.

Knowledge of conversion of existing images (TIFF, BMP, PSD) for online use
(JPG, GIF) using Adobe ImageReady and PhotoShop.

Thorough knowledge of browser compatibility issues for all platforms/major

browsers.

3.2 RESPONSIBILITIES

Creating and maintaining websites and online marketing

Handling issues with technology

Creating new content and updating old content on websites

Monitoring search engine optimization and placement

Tracking effectiveness of online marketing and website lead capturing

Trading links with appropriate sites

Install SSL certificates

Integration of web infrastructure components with each other and Line of

Business applications

Installation of database plug-ins and connectivity

Managing URL redirections

Managing concurrency and security in website.