With the advent of multinational companies and
globalization, India
has emerged as a hot place for job seekers with lot of opportunities in various
sectors. Indian companies are now rich with great talent in the world and
million dollars offshore projects. Information Technology is one of the
demanding fields where the Indian talent is asked for their remuneration with
lot of growth prospects.
Numbers of domains are associated with the I.T.
industry in the world where a professional can bring home a thick packet of
salary. Web applications development is one of the areas where jobs as
well as remunerations are endless.
Web application development is very wide domain in
which a job seeker should choose one of his interests out of abundant
programming languages, scripts, tools and packages. Obviously, one should be
able to be perfect in particular programming language or tool because it is
very difficult to be expert in everything.
In Web development, there are many fields where a
candidate can move with sufficient knowledge and proficiency.
Various positions in any Web Development Company are
listed here -
Web Designer
Flash Designer and
Game Specialist
Web Master and Portal
Manager
1. WEB
DESIGNER
Web designer is responsible for user interface design
of a website. It includes designing of logo, banners, advertisements as well as
other interactive elements. Its main goal is includes the development of user
friendly, interactive and attractive designs so that user click on most of the
links or banners. Moreover, the contents are presented to the end user in form
of web pages. These interactive elements are placed in a website using markup
languages. So, a web designer should be proficient in atleast HTML which is
very common and effective markup language.
In general practice, a web designer is responsible
for creating static web pages rather than database driven dynamic web pages.
Here, static web page refers to the web document which remains same in
content and layout unless the web designer changes it manually.
On other part, dynamic web pages change its structure
and contents depending upon the input given by the end-user.
For a commercial website, the following aspects are
considered -
Quality of images
Quality of Content or
simply Effective Content Writing
User Friendly with
simple, efficient and reliable interfaces
Search Engines
Friendly
Color combination of
text, background and images
Quick downloading of
pages
Consistency in all
web pages of the website
Consistency in
navigation
1.1 DESIRED PROFILE
Graduate in any
Discipline.
Good Communication
Skills to interact directly with the Client.
Good knowledge of
Designing Concepts,
Exposure to Search
Engine Optimization Techniques
Awareness of
the latest trend in web designing & development.
Basic knowledge of
server side scripts and database handling.
Knowledge to
customize the web applications for multiple web browsers ? Microsoft
Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla Firefox
1.2 RESPONSIBILITIES
Updating and
maintaining the company Websites on regular basis.
To help in providing
input and support for design functionality.
Understanding and
gathering the client?s requirements and designing as per specifications
Delivering Creative
Visualizations designs of Websites based on client requisition.
Designing
banners/templates/logo and other media elements including.
Digital image
processing using Adobe PhotoShop, Flash and other tools.
2. FLASH
DESIGNER AND GAME SPECIALIST
Flash designer is
responsible for developing attractive and eye-catchy animations for the website
to attract the visitors. Various
2D/3D designs are developed using Macromedia Flash and Action Scripting. Flash
animators work on professional product demos, advertisements and animations.
Creativity, good understanding of the design specification and translation of
business ideas into stunning animations/presentations is expected from a Flash
Designer.
Action script programmers work on online games, corporate intros and product
demonstrations. Good knowledge in AS2 and AS3
(Action Script) and SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) are required to become the team member of Action Script
programmers.
A fresh animator becomes the part of a team of
producers who are responsible for producing effective and high quality games.
The key job functions of the animators include producing ultimate games from
concept stage till final publishing on the website. The game developers handle
the external clients as well as in-house teams.
While working as a key resource in online game
development division, the candidates get familiar with various tools for
creating wonderful animations.
2.1 DESIRED PROFILE
Graduate in any discipline
Strong working knowledge and understanding of current web standards
and user interface
In-depth knowledge
and development experience with HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Macromedia
Flash and ActionScript, and Macromedia Breeze
Excellent 2D and 3D Animation skills
Ability to visualize and illustrate storyboards.
Good conceptualization and visualization skills.
Proactive in mocking up animation ideas
Comprehensive knowledge of Multimedia Packages.
Knowledge of CorelDraw, SoundForge, Flash Action Scripting (AS 2.0
& AS 3.0) and experience as an animator for international clients will
be an advantage.
Good analytical
skills and aptitude
Ability to handle
projects independently as well as excellent in interacting with the team
members.
Game enthusiast
2.2 RESPONSIBILITIES
Interacting with client to analyze their requirement.
Performing quality
work and add value by suggesting innovative ways of game programming and
optimization of the game through Programming.
Video and Audio
Editing
Implementation of new
technologies with ease
Developing a project right from visualization, analysis,
design, development and testing.
Collaborate within the team to design and develop the project.
Developing eye catchy
games and animations.
Work with other designers ? both internally and externally ? to
connect their designs to our proprietary back-end technology.
Work with other designers to provide a richer audience experience
through the use of Flash, PHP and other advanced web technologies
3.
WEBMASTER AND PORTAL MANAGER
Thewebmasteralso called as theweb architect web
developer, the website author, or thewebsite administrator,
is the person who is responsible for designing, developing, marketing, or
maintaining awebsite. Webmasters are responsible for managing all aspects of Web
operations including marketing aspects. A webmaster is also named as Internet Specialist, Network/Web Engineer, Web
Administrator or Web Application Engineer
Webmasters
typically have the expertise in various scripting languages such as PHP,
ColdFusion, Perl and Javascript. They are also expert in configuring web
servers such as Apache and serve as the server administrator. The main
responsibilities of the webmaster include the management of access
privileges of different users of a website as well as the appearance and
setting up website navigation.
The Web Portal Manager works
in the same way as a webmaster but his role is quite diversified. A web
portal presents information in a website from different sources in a unified
way.
Varying from the
standard search engines, web portals provide other services such as
Matrimonial Services
E-mail
News
Sports
Shopping
Travels and Tour Management
Stock prices and Business Details
Career counseling and education
Information
Entertainment and many more
Some of the famous web portals are
Rediff.com
Yahoo.com
Google.com
Indiatimes.com
India.gov.in
3.1 DESIRED
PROFILE
Sound knowledge of website development, and should be creative
enough to produce innovative designs and ideas.
Candidate should have rich relevant experience on weblogic or
websphere administration (dual skills have added advantage)
Experience in a production environment.
Coding (HTML / PHP / .net / ASP / Database / Java script / Joomla /
oscommerce / other shopping carts / payment integration / vBulletin / CSS
etc.
Good knowledge of UNIX and Linux administration with network
troubleshooting.
Hands on Experience on CA Siteminder. CA Siteminder is a Web access
management system which is having all features to manage a website or web
portal.
Web design skills and
experience
Excellent knowledge and experience with HTML at the tag level
Experience with DHTML, COM and client-side JavaScript programming
experience is also required.
Thorough knowledge of browser compatibility issues for all
platforms/major browsers is necessary.
Knowledge of conversion of existing images (TIFF, BMP, PSD) for
online use (JPG, GIF) using Adobe ImageReady and PhotoShop.
Thorough knowledge of browser compatibility issues for all
platforms/major browsers.
3.2
RESPONSIBILITIES
Creating and
maintaining websites and online marketing
Handling issues with
technology
Creating new content
and updating old content on websites
Monitoring search
engine optimization and placement
Tracking
effectiveness of online marketing and website lead capturing
Trading links with
appropriate sites
Install SSL certificates
Integration of web infrastructure components with each other and
Line of Business applications
Installation of database plug-ins and connectivity
Managing URL redirections
Managing concurrency and security in website.
Author
Gaurav Kumar
Author is a Sr. Lecturer (Department of Computer
Applications) in