November 17th, 2008
Many business owners have now discovered the importance of creating a compelling and professional website to engage visitors, build their trust, and turn them into customers. Website owners used to have to decide between form and function. This resulted in millions of flashy websites that intrigued visitors, but provided no value or reason for them to return. Alternatively, some websites provided significant value, but were amateurish and not visually entertaining. The fact that the search engines favored easy, sloppy websites at the time made matters even worse.
How the internet has changed! If you’re a beginning web developer, you can learn to create a compelling and professional website that will captivate visitors and provide them with value that makes them want to return. For most business owners, that means repeat customer relationships and increased profit. The following paragraphs detail what a web developer does, including the basics of how to design an attractive website that’ll give a business a competitive edge.
The Problem Of A Web Developer
It used to be a “one or the other” choice when it came to designing websites: artistic form or valuable function. Today, a web developer can design a website that provides the ideal of both. Easy, simple to figure out navigation is seamlessly blended within an artistic framework. Choosing the right animations, fonts, and graphics can add personality to a website without sacrificing its functionality.
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November 15th, 2008
The Chicago Sky is seeking a Web Development Intern to assist with day to day management of the Sky website and photo galleries. Responsibilities may include:
- Provide media development for projects including building and implementing new multimedia pages, graphics and flash;
- Integrating the above elements with back end applications;
- Assist Web Developer in designing, developing and maintaining all online properties
- Must be able to build web pages under the instruction of manager as well as help maintain Chicagosky.net
Candidates must have proven knowledge of a variety of web development language and be proficient in Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Indesign and Photoshop
Additional qualifications desired -
*Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
*Knowledge of HTML and CSS language.
Candidates must be available a minimum 20 hours a week including day after home games through the month of September. Candidates should have high energy, a positive attitude and be committed to teamwork as well as detail oriented, self starter, highly motivated, with an ability to multi task, be flexible and passionate about working. This position reports directly to the Chicago Sky Web Developer.
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Tags: applications, building, CSS, Designing, developing, Excel, flash, graphics, HTML, implementing, media development, Microsoft Word, multimedia pages, photo galleries, PowerPoint
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November 13th, 2008
Many business owners have now discovered the importance of creating a compelling and professional website to engage visitors, build their trust, and turn them into customers. Website owners used to have to decide between form and function. This resulted in millions of flashy websites that intrigued visitors, but provided no value or reason for them to return. Alternatively, some websites provided significant value, but were amateurish and not visually pleasing. The fact that the search engines favored simple, sloppy websites at the time made matters even worse.
How the internet has changed! If you are a beginning web developer, you can learn to create a compelling and professional website that will captivate visitors and provide them with value that makes them want to return. For most business owners, that means repeat customer relationships and increased profit. The following paragraphs detail what a web developer does, including the basics of how to design an attractive website that will give a business a competitive edge.
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Tags: design, internet, visitors
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