10 steps to becoming a great web developer

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10 Steps to Becoming a Great Web Developer!

Published March 6, 2010 | By Shawn Altman

TeamAltman :: How to become a Web Developer in 10 steps

Learning to work on web sites is actually pretty easy and will certainly not take years

of schooling, but becoming a developer will take time and energy. We have included

10 steps that you will want to take in order to become a Web Developer. Development

comes in two flavors. The first is in front end development, which would be what the

user sees when going to your site. That would include the graphics and style. The

second part is the back-end web development or server side. As you can guess this

would be development in database, webserver, and similar technologies. Below is a

road map to becoming a web developer. Spread the knowledge!

1. Learn HTML

HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language is the markup language for web pages, it is

the heart of web pages, so this is what

you should aim for first. HTML is easy to learn, but also easy to misuse. Learn it

right, and youll get one of your fundamentals as web developer.

Resources

HTML Dog

Getting started with HTML HTML W3C school tutorial

2. Learn server side scripting

Learning server side scripting is fundamental for web developer, pick one of server

side scripting language and try to master it. Here some of your choices :

PHP

Python

Ruby

3. Learn SQL
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Building dynamic web pages will get you to learn about database. While there are so

many database engine, most of them understand SQL language. If you want to speak

with your database then learn this language.

Resources

SQL W3C school tutorials

MySQL Homepage

Wikipedia on SQL

4. Learn CSS

When it come to presentation of your web pages, use stylesheet. This is where CSS

will help you. So put some of your time to learn this stuff.

Resources

HTML Dog CSS Zen Garden

5. Learn Javascript

While most of today web programmer lovejQuery, learning basic syntax and how to

program in javascript will give you more skill in the long run.

Resources

Javascript tutorial on Webmonkey.com

Javascript W3C school tutorial
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6. Learn regular expression

While it is not as important as the others, but knowing about regular expression, and

how to use it will definitely save you a lot of time. From validation to highlight

words, you can do it easy enough in regular expression.

7. Get yourself basic knowledge of UNIX/Linux

It is optional, but knowing some ofbasic linux command wont hurt you. Maybe you

dont know, but most of web server is running on unix/linux platform. If I were you,

Ill get started learning this basic command.

8. Knowing web server

You dont need to be a master on this part, but it is really nice to know about basic

apache configuration, .htaccess tricks. Learning one or two about apache web serverwont waste your time.

9. Get a hand on version control

Learning on how to use version control is one good thing to do. Youll thank to for

yourself for learning this.
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10. Learn web framework

After get your hand on HTML, server side scripting language, css, javascript, then itd

be better to choose a web framework to speed up your development. Using framework

can save you time. If youre into PHP, you can go with CakePHP, CodeIgniter,Zend,

and many more. Python lovers can go with Django,webpy,RoRfor Rubyprogrammers
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