• You've surfed the web, right? All of those web sites were designed and developed and are maintained by Web Developers and Administrators.
• Web developers follow a product development cycle like many of the other IT professionals we have been discussing.

• As a web developer, you might first have to talk to web site owners and users to figure out what the web site owners want their web site to look like and to do.
• You might next work up a "story board" -a set of pictures on paper-that helps the web site owners to understand how the web site will work.
• Based on approval of the storyboard, you would then begin to build the web site.
• While building the web site, you would need to use a variety of software. For instance, you could use ready made web development software like FrontPage or Dream Weaver. Or you could build your web pages from "scratch" using HTML. If you have to put interactive forms like shopping carts or questionnaires on your site, then you may also need to some computer programming languages like Java or Visual Basic.
• As you build the web site, you will have to test it with users to make sure that it is easy to navigate and to interact with.
• Based on feedback, you may have to make appropriate changes along the way.
• Once the web site is completed, then web administration takes over.
• Web administrators keep the web site up to date and make changes over time as the web site owners come up with new ideas about how the site should function.
• The same tools that you use as a developer will be essential as an administrator.

• Working knowledge of a variety of web development tools including software and programming languages like C, Cold Fusion, SQL, etc...
• Good communication skills.
• An ability to translate "user" needs into good formatting in the web environment.

Interested in more? Look at entry-level jobs in this field.