Rapid application and web site development. Increasing demand for web standards. New standards and technologies appear, grow, and morph together within shorter and shorter cycles. Webmasters must be more productive than ever. These guidelines will help you become a more productive webmaster.
The building blocks of a productive webmaster are:
Webmasters can find plenty of excellent tools now to:
The old saying, "Use the right tool for the right job", remains true today. Invest time today in finding yourself the right tools for the jobs you do.
The net houses a myriad of web developer software. Some of the best web development applications and tools are free or open-source. Yes, many excellent web design applications still cost, yet can be worth paying for.
How To Build Up Your Samples for your Portfolio Without Professional Experience
What should you do if you have no professional examples to place in your portfolio? If you are in a situation where you don't have any professional samples to place into your portfolio, then you obviously have a lot of work to do. You might be able to get away with placing classroom projects into your "book", but you would have a much better chance with "real world" samples. Below, please find suggestions on building your sample-base.
The "above the fold" part of a web page (especially of the home page) is the most valuable real estate you have on your web site.
When surfing the Web these days, you often come across web sites that suffer from stagnation ? they look old, obsolete or appear to have been designed by an amateur. Your web site needs continuous improvement to capture and engage your visitor's attention. If not, they can easily click away to your competitor's site.
When surfing the Web these days, you often come across web sites that suffer from stagnation ? they look old, obsolete or appear to have been designed by an amateur. Your web site needs continuous improvement to capture and engage your visitor's attention. If not, they can easily click away to your competitor's site.
Many of our community members would like to continue to improve their design skills. Forum member ?Greg? has given us a great new design tutorial for making a cool haloed logos and 3-D shapes. Take a look at this tutorial as Greg helps you to create professional images for your site in minutes.
Dustin Diaz (AKA: CWM Community Member ?polvero?) give us his helpful advice for designing a client?s site.
What should you do if you have no professional examples to place in your portfolio? If you are in a situation where you don't have any professional samples to place into your portfolio, then you obviously have a lot of work to do. You might be able to get away with placing classroom projects into your "book", but you would have a much better chance with "real world" samples. Below, please find suggestions on building your sample-base.