While Los Angeles, California is not among the top 10 U.S. cities for computer programming, it is still a great place to find a job in this field. And while most people may assume that web development is a career itself, it is more a field of working involving many different jobs. Such as:
- Writers
- Designers
- Database Administrators
- Product Managers
- Project Managers
- Programmers
- Researchers
Web development really requires a team of people who are charged with handling every aspect of a website, from start to finish, and even continuing from there if they offer site management and maintenance.
When looking for a job in Los Angeles’ web development field you need to know what part of the development team you want to work on. Do you want to be the one who comes up with the main theme for the site, or do you feel your talents would be better suited to programming the site or providing its content. Other parts of the team are in charge of building the site, marketing it, providing support and the overall design of the website. Also, large development companies most often have a person to fill each role on the team. If you work for a smaller company, you may be required to have knowledge in more than one aspect of web development.
- Positions within the web development team include:
- Programming- create both the back end of the website and the front.
- Technical- produce a site that has content supporting the business, make sure that it is easy to navigate, and coordinates the front and back ends of the site.
- Management- knowledge of the product of business category the site corresponds with
- Development- writes and edits the content to be used on the website
Being part of web development in Los Angeles involves many long hours. The reason for the extended hours is that you while many jobs end at five o’clock, and most problems can be dealt with the next day, websites cannot be improperly functioning or completely down without the business losing money. You could be called upon anytime, day or night, to fix an error with an order processing program or a glitch in one of the sites links.
To stand out among the other professionals trying to get into web development in Los Angeles you will need to be widely skilled. Knowing HTML, XML, CGI, and other scripting and markup language, as well as, development tools such as Acrobat and Dreamweaver and programs like Photoshop and Illustrator, will make you more of an asset to any web development company.
It also makes you stand out in Los Angeles web development industry if you have prior in depth knowledge of the World Wide Web and how it functions, are experienced in doing research online and off, keep up on trends that revolve around e-businessess, are exceptionally functional with a team, can communicate well with others, are highly organized, possibly a persuasive personality, and in some instances possess management skills necessary to get the job done over many platforms.