10 Most Sought-after Skills in Web Development

soctal · Oct 21, 2008

new essay on the nettuts sites discusses the most important skills a freelance developer needs. in the comments section, some posters said that asp.net also needed to be added to that list. I am not a developer, just passing it along.

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http://nettuts.com/articles/10-most-sought-after-skills-in-web-development/#comment-15150

10 Most Sought-after Skills in Web Development

In Articles by Glen Stansberry
In a time of economic crisis, web developers and freelancers everywhere have started chewing their fingernails. However, no matter how bad the economy worsens, there will always be work in certain booming fields of web development.

As the moderator of the Freelance Switch job board, there are certain types of jobs that are constantly in demand. Here are the 10 skills that are or will be in highest demand for developers. If you are proficient in these skills, you'll be in a great position to find work and weather any economic downturn.

1. Framework knowledge

2. Widget development

3. Custom CMS themes

4. CMS Customizations and plugin development

5. PSD to XHTML services.

6. Javascript Plugin creation

7. Facebook/MySpace applications

8. iPhone applications

9. Ecommerce integration

10. Flash and Actionscript Knowledge

headspin · Oct 22, 2008

I think AJAX and cloud computing should be somewhere up there.

lewi · Oct 22, 2008

meh..... i know none of those.... i think i should learn some and then get in on the big $$$$

albaniax · Oct 22, 2008

Hm.. for that you need a lot of experience. But I think with this skills, you could make a good amount of $$$ every month.

What do you think one average Freelancer with this skills makes a month?

Chris Devon · Oct 22, 2008

I know the 3. (for wordpress) and the 5 (I learned it an collage)

paperchaser · Nov 5, 2008

iPhone Development shoud be alot higher on the list.

seomanifest · Nov 5, 2008

I think curl should be on that list too, any serious web developer should have that in his/her arsenal

mrpega · Nov 7, 2008

i think old programming languages like c++ and c# are also important. If you can conquer these languages, it shows that you will not have any problems picking up new programming languages even if you didn't learn them before.

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