January 2015
Beginner
312 pages
7h 35m
English
Content preview from Getting a Web Development Job For Dummies
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Chapter 3
Understanding Where Web Designers Work
In This Chapter
Discovering what it’s like to work at a web development company
Understanding how other organizations use web developers
Knowing what to look out for when working for a company
Web designers are everywhere. Every organization has a website — and there are many professional-looking websites that don’t really have much of an organization behind them. So web work is ubiquitous; every organization has web developers working for it at least part of the time, whether they’re full-time employees, contractors, or employees of a web services firm.
Most web designers take somewhat of a random walk into and through their careers. They get an initial job in web development, or they start doing web development work when they have an entirely different title and set of responsibilities. Then the technologies they use, the areas of expertise which they develop, and the people they get to know determine the next step in their career, and so on, perhaps for decades.
In this chapter, we provide you key information you need to use in deciding how to start your career — or how to continue it in a more interesting and rewarding direction. ...