Web development combines left-brain and right-brain skills including:
- Design to make websites visually appealing
- Programming to integrate database technologies
- Coding to make websites and web applications function
Web developers – also known as web architects, website designers or webmasters – use a healthy mix of creative, analytical and programmatic skills. In a web development role, you would:
- Write and evaluate code for websites or applications
- Design, build and modify web pages or apps using scripts, content management tools and digital media
- Develop databases to support web applications and websites
- Perform testing to ensure content functions and displays as it should
- Implement and maintain security measures such as firewalls and encryptions to protect assets
- Monitor and enhance technical performance to help web content perform better
- And more!
If this sounds interesting to you, join the web development program through NWTC’s College of Business today!