What are the benefits of having a website?
- Assured Online Presence: Having a website means customers can find you anytime from anywhere ensuring 24 by 7, 365 days business presence. Your website is available for potential customers even outside business hours ensuring competitive advantage over other businesses that don’t have a website.
- Exchange of Information: A website provides an easy way to exchange information between buyers & sellers. Customers get authentic information about different products & services through company’s articles & blogs.
- Credibility: It has been found that customers are more likely to trust a brand having an online presence with a physical address and a toll free number.
- It cuts cost: You can use your website to sell goods and services directly to a customer removing the need of brick and mortar shops saving huge operational and manpower cost while giving a huge competitive edge in the market.
- Market Expansion: A website gives you the ability to break geographical borders and sell services to global customers. Now anyone can be a potential customer for your business.
- Consumer Insights: Analytical tools let you identify who are the customers, their geographical location, website behavior and what they like most for your website. This helps in adapting businesses to maximize purchases through the website.
What are the skills of a web developer?
A good web developer must learn front end development as well as back end development.
A front end developer is a professional responsible for the design & implementation of the interface. Here are the expected Skills of a professional front end developer:
- Proficient in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery
- Experienced with graphic design applications
- Understand the fundamentals of SEO
- Have excellent skills in problem-solving
- Proficient in communicating with team members
- Understand server-side CSS
- Have good interpersonal skills
Backend developers refer to server side development. There is a requirement of some much needed essential skills to become one:
- Knowledge of web development languages like .Net, Java, RubyonRails, Python
- Experience with DBMS technology like Oracle, MySQL
- Exposure to handling Apache, Nginx, IIS servers is desirable
- Good hand at web services or API
