Since its inception, the Internet has expanded every year, along with its availability and usefulness. Today, the Internet is expanding every hour, especially due to the advents of social media and e-commerce. As the number of people and businesses coming and or establishing themselves online increase, so are the incentives to become a Professional Web Developer.
The Professional Web Developer generally earns an excellent living (no less than $25,000 per year up to and over $100,000 per year, depending on experience) and is able to maintain a good quality of life, especially as a freelancer, because he is not obliged to work in a formal environment. He remains interested in his work, motivated by incessant challenges, and, through his work, forms part of an enormous community of professionals leading a cutting-edge movement in technology.
Though dedicated a Professional Web Developer may pursue both, in order to be well-rounded, most will chose one of two paths:
1) Focus on client-end programming, such as HTML, CSS (the basic building blocks of web development) and JavaScript.
2) Focus on server-side programming, such as PHP, Ruby, Perl, and Python. This type of Professional Web Developer is usually referred to as a Web Programmer.
Studying web development at university-level is not an obvious course of action, as what has been studied may soon lose its relevance or become obsolete. It is a continuous learning process, as much for an established Professional Web Developer, as for a new one. Though it would be wise to gain a solid grounding from an institution such as a vocational school for web development, the usual route to a successful career as a Professional Web Developer is self-training.
Aside from the numerous distance-learning programs available, there are also many free programs dedicated to the promotion of the Professional Web Developer’s progress in the field. They are run by tutors from the industry, many of whom are happy to pass on their knowledge for nothing. There are besides many resources of information on every facet of the field, including popular forums, where the Professional Web Developer is often found meeting others, exchanging revolutionary ideas, or thrashing out the interesting problems they have come across.
It may be considered a wise investment of time and effort to take up web development as a hobby. When you have mastered it sufficiently, it may eventually make for lucrative part-time employment, if not full-time. As further motivation, having these skills is likely to boost your CV, in a working environment where more and more quality skills are being sought for in each employee.
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