There are several basic methods of looking for work:
Networking. Talk to everyone who may be able to help you, and give each of them a copy of your updated resume. Word of mouth is still the most common method of finding a job.
Direct Contact. Call or write to employers you have an interest in. Ask to arrange a visit.
Job Postings. including those in newspapers & magazine classified ads, bulletin boards, Cable TV scrolling ads, and government-funded Employment Centres. And don't forget the Internet! These days, more job openings are posted on the Internet than on any other single medium. The best source of Canadian job postings is the Job Bank operated by Service Canada. Make sure you look there first, before investigating other job advertisements.
Employment Agencies. Many businesses advertise job openings through employment agencies. But be aware that agencies are profit-seeking companies. They may charge a fee for their services, or deduct a percentage of your pay. It's wise to learn all the details beforehand.
School Placement Office or Guidance Department. You don't necessarily have to be a student to investigate these sources. Many community colleges have a job finding service that is available to anyone – not just students.
Trade Associations and Service Clubs. including trade shows, job fairs, chambers of commerce, business associations. Merely getting involved in these activities may help you with your job search.
The Phone Book. This is one resource that is often overlooked – but shouldn't be. Bell's Yellow Pages or The Phone Guide's Yellow Section can be especially helpful for those who have recently moved to a new location, or for anyone who is unfamiliar with the companies and services in their area. If you're stuck for ideas on where to find work, the Phone Book is to job seekers what the Sears Wish Book is to Christmas gift buyers.
Volunteer. Not only will volunteering give you valuable experience (which you can then add to your resume), it also shows that you are genuinely interested in working for an organization. Volunteer work can sometimes lead to paid employment, but even if it doesn't, you will have increased the size of your job-seeking network, gained another reference, and perhaps even found someone willing to write a letter of referral which you can then present to prospective employers. The more methods you use, the greater your chances of finding employment.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Finding Jobs Online
Your Job Search Should Include an Effective Online Approach
Using the Internet to find jobs online greatly increases your ability to gather information from the widest array of sources. I'll show you some simple Recruiter Tips that you can easily learn and incorporate into your online search to make your job search go faster and give you much better results.
Be aware that there are probably hundreds of sites where you can find jobs online on the Internet. At this writing, however, here are the top job/resume posting and career/job search information & advice sites with a few up-and-comers to take note of. (For a more extensive collection of job posting sites and career advice sites, click here.)
Monster Starting to feel competition from several sites below but still the grandaddy and largest of all the online job sites also offering job search and career advice.
Careerbuilder Owned by the Gannett Co., offers both print and online job search and advice services partnering with 150 newspapers as well as AOL and MSN.
Hotjobs Division of Internet giant Yahoo®, has huge job search site plus offers extensive tools and advice section for career and job search improvement.
WorkGiant Up-and-comer, this pay-for-performance site allows employers to post all jobs for free, plus pays job seekers referral fees of from $50 to $200 each for all candidates who are hired.
Indeed Another up-and-comer, this is billed as a one-stop search engine for jobs. Simply list your job preferences and get a slug of returns pulled from many other sites, including those listed here. No resume posting (visibility) here, though.
CareerOneStop (formerly America’s Job Bank) a U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored Web site that offers career resources and workforce information to job seekers
Craig’s list *
Workblast **
JobMaps ***
* Craig's List, founded by Craig Newmark in 1995 who began posting high tech jobs online that he and a few others became aware of in the Silicon Valley area. What started as a small underground jobs and information networking bulletin board has since flourished into a large jobs/personals datasite that offers a more personal touch and is now highly targeted to many major cities throughout the country. If you live in or near any major city (including outside the US), you should find a local site devoted to your area.
** Workblast is another up and comer. Like other job sites, they link candidates with thousands of employers. However, they've added an interesting twist in that job seekers can easily make and upload up to 3 video resumes along with their conventional digital resume and store them on the company server for later viewing by potential employers. A recent study indicated that 89% of employers/recruiters would view a video resume if available as it adds an extra element to the candidate selection process. An added bonus: candidates may watch an employer video to discover more about the company before they apply. The service is free to candidates.
*** JobMaps combines Indeed.com resources with Google Maps, this is a job search engine that allows you to see where jobs are located on a map.
Remember, you want to increase your exposure to the highest degree possible. I'll take you through each site and show you several easy techniques that you can use to get more hits from employers who use these sites every day. We'll cover three of the major sites above. Since the Monster® site is the most visible and used by the majority of employers, you might want to start there:
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How to Register on Monster Increase your resume response.with recruiter insider tips on registering with the Monster job search site.
How to Register on CareerBuilder How to increase your resume response with recruiter insider tips on registering with the CareerBuilder job search site.
How to Register on HotJobs Recruiter insider tips on how to register on Yahoo's HotJobs job search site to increase your resume response.
How to Register on WorkGiant Submit your resume, search for jobs AND make money through referrals by registering on the WorkGiant job search site. Added details on how to increase your resume's odds.
Using the Internet to find jobs online greatly increases your ability to gather information from the widest array of sources. I'll show you some simple Recruiter Tips that you can easily learn and incorporate into your online search to make your job search go faster and give you much better results.
Be aware that there are probably hundreds of sites where you can find jobs online on the Internet. At this writing, however, here are the top job/resume posting and career/job search information & advice sites with a few up-and-comers to take note of. (For a more extensive collection of job posting sites and career advice sites, click here.)
Monster Starting to feel competition from several sites below but still the grandaddy and largest of all the online job sites also offering job search and career advice.
Careerbuilder Owned by the Gannett Co., offers both print and online job search and advice services partnering with 150 newspapers as well as AOL and MSN.
Hotjobs Division of Internet giant Yahoo®, has huge job search site plus offers extensive tools and advice section for career and job search improvement.
WorkGiant Up-and-comer, this pay-for-performance site allows employers to post all jobs for free, plus pays job seekers referral fees of from $50 to $200 each for all candidates who are hired.
Indeed Another up-and-comer, this is billed as a one-stop search engine for jobs. Simply list your job preferences and get a slug of returns pulled from many other sites, including those listed here. No resume posting (visibility) here, though.
CareerOneStop (formerly America’s Job Bank) a U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored Web site that offers career resources and workforce information to job seekers
Craig’s list *
Workblast **
JobMaps ***
* Craig's List, founded by Craig Newmark in 1995 who began posting high tech jobs online that he and a few others became aware of in the Silicon Valley area. What started as a small underground jobs and information networking bulletin board has since flourished into a large jobs/personals datasite that offers a more personal touch and is now highly targeted to many major cities throughout the country. If you live in or near any major city (including outside the US), you should find a local site devoted to your area.
** Workblast is another up and comer. Like other job sites, they link candidates with thousands of employers. However, they've added an interesting twist in that job seekers can easily make and upload up to 3 video resumes along with their conventional digital resume and store them on the company server for later viewing by potential employers. A recent study indicated that 89% of employers/recruiters would view a video resume if available as it adds an extra element to the candidate selection process. An added bonus: candidates may watch an employer video to discover more about the company before they apply. The service is free to candidates.
*** JobMaps combines Indeed.com resources with Google Maps, this is a job search engine that allows you to see where jobs are located on a map.
Remember, you want to increase your exposure to the highest degree possible. I'll take you through each site and show you several easy techniques that you can use to get more hits from employers who use these sites every day. We'll cover three of the major sites above. Since the Monster® site is the most visible and used by the majority of employers, you might want to start there:
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urchinTracker();
How to Register on Monster Increase your resume response.with recruiter insider tips on registering with the Monster job search site.
How to Register on CareerBuilder How to increase your resume response with recruiter insider tips on registering with the CareerBuilder job search site.
How to Register on HotJobs Recruiter insider tips on how to register on Yahoo's HotJobs job search site to increase your resume response.
How to Register on WorkGiant Submit your resume, search for jobs AND make money through referrals by registering on the WorkGiant job search site. Added details on how to increase your resume's odds.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
How the Web works
Viewing a Web page on the World Wide Web normally begins either by typing the URL of the page into a Web browser, or by following a hyperlink to that page or resource. The Web browser then initiates a series of communication messages, behind the scenes, in order to fetch and display it.
First, the server-name portion of the URL is resolved into an IP address using the global, distributed Internet database known as the domain name system, or DNS. This IP address is necessary to contact and send data packets to the Web server.
The browser then requests the resource by sending an HTTP request to the Web server at that particular address. In the case of a typical Web page, the HTML text of the page is requested first and parsed immediately by the Web browser, which will then make additional requests for images and any other files that form a part of the page. Statistics measuring a website's popularity are usually based on the number of 'page views' or associated server 'hits', or file requests, which take place.
Having received the required files from the Web server, the browser then renders the page onto the screen as specified by its HTML, CSS, and other Web languages. Any images and other resources are incorporated to produce the on-screen Web page that the user sees.
Most Web pages will themselves contain hyperlinks to other related pages and perhaps to downloads, source documents, definitions and other Web resources. Such a collection of useful, related resources, interconnected via hypertext links, is what was dubbed a "web" of information. Making it available on the Internet created what Tim Berners-Lee first called the WorldWideWeb (a term written in CamelCase, subsequently discarded) in 1990.
First, the server-name portion of the URL is resolved into an IP address using the global, distributed Internet database known as the domain name system, or DNS. This IP address is necessary to contact and send data packets to the Web server.
The browser then requests the resource by sending an HTTP request to the Web server at that particular address. In the case of a typical Web page, the HTML text of the page is requested first and parsed immediately by the Web browser, which will then make additional requests for images and any other files that form a part of the page. Statistics measuring a website's popularity are usually based on the number of 'page views' or associated server 'hits', or file requests, which take place.
Having received the required files from the Web server, the browser then renders the page onto the screen as specified by its HTML, CSS, and other Web languages. Any images and other resources are incorporated to produce the on-screen Web page that the user sees.
Most Web pages will themselves contain hyperlinks to other related pages and perhaps to downloads, source documents, definitions and other Web resources. Such a collection of useful, related resources, interconnected via hypertext links, is what was dubbed a "web" of information. Making it available on the Internet created what Tim Berners-Lee first called the WorldWideWeb (a term written in CamelCase, subsequently discarded) in 1990.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Ask.com - Search egnine for married woman
Ask.com one
of the popular search engines will now not be in direct competition with search engine giant oogle d will try to focus on becoming first search engine only targeted for married woman. Ask would now focus on woman over 30 who are a majority part of search engine visitor and according to ASK this group of visitors normally visit the site asking questions about entertainment and
health topics।
However source from inside the ASK office denied that search engine is going to die. In an answer to media question ask spokesman said that “We recognize that we can’t be all things to all people, so we’re focusing on our core group of users. We want to build up the kinds of answers those users are looking for, while at the same time remain a strong search site”.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
PHP optimised for Windows Server 2008
Want to run a Coppermine photo gallery on a Windows 2008 Server? In the past, that's meant that the popular PHP application for photo galleries would run more poorly than on a Linux or Unix server, for which PHP had been optimised..
But the specialist in the PHP language, Zend Technologies, says that's no longer the case. The Zend Core commercially supported form of PHP has been certified by Microsoft as ready to run "with performance and stability" on Windows Server 2008, said Andi Gutmans, co-founder and CTO of Zend. That means passing more than 100 compatibility tests, plus collaborating closely on certain Microsoft technologies.
For example, Zend worked with Microsoft's FastCGI component for its Web server, IIS, to make FastCGI set up and run PHP applications efficiently. The IIS Web server is now built into Windows 2008, and the two companies made certain the PHP interface to FastCGI worked smoothly, Gutmans said in an interview.
Zend's PHP now supports CardSpace, Microsoft's identity management system, so users of PHP applications may gain online services after being authenticated and awarded the proper privilege level. The Windows 2008 certification also means Windows as well as Linux servers can be expected to host such PHP applications as the Mambo Web site content management system or the WordPress blog publishing system, Gutmans said.
Previously, PHP "didn't run as well as it should on Windows," said Gutmans, despite the fact that 75% to 80% of PHP users were developing on Windows workstations. When they deployed their Windows-based applications to production, their performance was disappointing and they tended to develop on Windows and deploy under Unix or Linux. Now the three platforms should be available on a more equal footing, he said.
The two companies have started work on a SQL Server driver for Zend Core that will make interfacing PHP Web applications to SQL Server a more straightforward task, Gutmans said.
But the specialist in the PHP language, Zend Technologies, says that's no longer the case. The Zend Core commercially supported form of PHP has been certified by Microsoft as ready to run "with performance and stability" on Windows Server 2008, said Andi Gutmans, co-founder and CTO of Zend. That means passing more than 100 compatibility tests, plus collaborating closely on certain Microsoft technologies.
For example, Zend worked with Microsoft's FastCGI component for its Web server, IIS, to make FastCGI set up and run PHP applications efficiently. The IIS Web server is now built into Windows 2008, and the two companies made certain the PHP interface to FastCGI worked smoothly, Gutmans said in an interview.
Zend's PHP now supports CardSpace, Microsoft's identity management system, so users of PHP applications may gain online services after being authenticated and awarded the proper privilege level. The Windows 2008 certification also means Windows as well as Linux servers can be expected to host such PHP applications as the Mambo Web site content management system or the WordPress blog publishing system, Gutmans said.
Previously, PHP "didn't run as well as it should on Windows," said Gutmans, despite the fact that 75% to 80% of PHP users were developing on Windows workstations. When they deployed their Windows-based applications to production, their performance was disappointing and they tended to develop on Windows and deploy under Unix or Linux. Now the three platforms should be available on a more equal footing, he said.
The two companies have started work on a SQL Server driver for Zend Core that will make interfacing PHP Web applications to SQL Server a more straightforward task, Gutmans said.
Cyber-attack launched from 10,000 web pages
A security firm has identified over 10,000 web pages rigged by cyber-criminals to hijack the PCs of unsuspecting surfers..
The web pages have been modified to silently redirect visitors to sites laden with malware that attempt to break into the user's PC.
McAfee Avert Labs described the assault as "one of the largest attacks to date of this kind".
The redirects and attempted break-ins are all hidden from the unwitting user. Compromised web pages include everyday destinations such as travel, government and hobby sites.
The attack serves as a reminder that even trusted websites can be malicious, McAfee warned.
"Often you hear warnings about not going to untrusted sites," said Craig Schmugar, threat researcher at McAfee Avert Labs.
"That is good advice, but it is not enough. Even sites you know and trust can become compromised."
The reprogrammed web pages are probably victims of an automated attack that included scanning the internet for unsecured servers and planting a piece of JavaScript code that redirects to a site in China to serve up the malware.
The malware cocktail attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in Windows, RealPlayer and other applications to break into the PC. A back door also allows the subsequent installation of additional malicious programs.
McAfee Avert Labs first spotted the attack on 12 March. "Of the 10,000 pages that were compromised a number have already been cleaned up," the firm stated.
"A single entity is likely to be behind this attack, since the malicious code on all these pages came from the same server in China."
The web pages have been modified to silently redirect visitors to sites laden with malware that attempt to break into the user's PC.
McAfee Avert Labs described the assault as "one of the largest attacks to date of this kind".
The redirects and attempted break-ins are all hidden from the unwitting user. Compromised web pages include everyday destinations such as travel, government and hobby sites.
The attack serves as a reminder that even trusted websites can be malicious, McAfee warned.
"Often you hear warnings about not going to untrusted sites," said Craig Schmugar, threat researcher at McAfee Avert Labs.
"That is good advice, but it is not enough. Even sites you know and trust can become compromised."
The reprogrammed web pages are probably victims of an automated attack that included scanning the internet for unsecured servers and planting a piece of JavaScript code that redirects to a site in China to serve up the malware.
The malware cocktail attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in Windows, RealPlayer and other applications to break into the PC. A back door also allows the subsequent installation of additional malicious programs.
McAfee Avert Labs first spotted the attack on 12 March. "Of the 10,000 pages that were compromised a number have already been cleaned up," the firm stated.
"A single entity is likely to be behind this attack, since the malicious code on all these pages came from the same server in China."
Searching the Net? Here Are Places to Start
Google Search, mail, maps and more. It includes a search of Usenet discussions, a government search, an image search, maps, local listings and Google Scholar for scholarly literature.
Yahoo! Search, news, e-mail, shopping, and many other services
Vivisimo searches and categorizes results helpfully
A9, from Amazon, adds some interesting twists to Web search.
Alta Vista now from Overture, includes audio and video search.
The Open Directory Project aims to become the largest Web directory edited by (volunteer) humans
All the Web, from Fast Search, is quick and simple
Ask.com has Web search and several other useful search features.
Ixquick, Excite, Dogpile, CNet Search.com and Metacrawler simultaneously search different combinations of multiple Web search engines
Reporter's Desktop conveniently consolidates many ways to find people and things.
Librarians' Index to the Internet Useful sites organized and annotated by librarians in California and Washington
About.com has humans who assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
Searchmil.com searches for information in military (.mil) computers
The Hardin Meta Directory catalogs health-related sites
Topica and Tile.Net will help you find Internet mailing lists
Yahoo! Search, news, e-mail, shopping, and many other services
Vivisimo searches and categorizes results helpfully
A9, from Amazon, adds some interesting twists to Web search.
Alta Vista now from Overture, includes audio and video search.
The Open Directory Project aims to become the largest Web directory edited by (volunteer) humans
All the Web, from Fast Search, is quick and simple
Ask.com has Web search and several other useful search features.
Ixquick, Excite, Dogpile, CNet Search.com and Metacrawler simultaneously search different combinations of multiple Web search engines
Reporter's Desktop conveniently consolidates many ways to find people and things.
Librarians' Index to the Internet Useful sites organized and annotated by librarians in California and Washington
About.com has humans who assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
Searchmil.com searches for information in military (.mil) computers
The Hardin Meta Directory catalogs health-related sites
Topica and Tile.Net will help you find Internet mailing lists
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Typical Areas
Web Development can be split into many areas and a typical and basic web development hierarchy might consist of;
Client Side Coding
CSS
XHTML (in accordance to modern web design standards, XHTML's use is replacing the older HTML)
Javascript
Flash (Adobe Flash Player is a ubiquitous client-side platform ready for RIAs. Flex 2 is also deployed to the Flash Player (version 9+))
Microsoft SilverLight But doesnt seem to support older win9x versions
Server Side Coding
PHP and MySQL
ASP and MSSQL
ASP.NET and MSSQL
CGI and/or Perl
Java, e.g. J2EE or WebObjects
Python, e.g. Django (web framework)
Ruby, e.g. Ruby on Rails
Smalltalk e.g. Seaside
ColdFusion
Lotus Domino
In practice, many web developers will also have interdisciplinary skills / roles, including:
Graphic design / web design
Information architecture and copywriting/copyediting with web usability, accessibility and search engine optimization in mind
Project management, QA and other aspects common to IT development in general
The above list is a simple website development hierarchy and can be extended to include all client side and server side aspects. It is still important to remember that web development is generally split up into client side coding covering aspects such as the layout and design, then server side coding, which covers the website's functionality and back end systems.
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Looking at these items from an "umbrella approach", client side coding such as XHTML is executed and stored on a local client (in a web browser) whereas server side code is not available to a client and is executed on a web server which generates the appropriate XHTML which is then sent to the client. As the nature of client side coding allows you to alter the HTML on a local client and refresh the pages with updated content (locally), web designers must bear in mind the importance and relevance to security with their server side scripts. If a server side script accepts content from a locally modified client side script, the web development of that page shows poor sanitization with relation to security.
Client Side Coding
CSS
XHTML (in accordance to modern web design standards, XHTML's use is replacing the older HTML)
Javascript
Flash (Adobe Flash Player is a ubiquitous client-side platform ready for RIAs. Flex 2 is also deployed to the Flash Player (version 9+))
Microsoft SilverLight But doesnt seem to support older win9x versions
Server Side Coding
PHP and MySQL
ASP and MSSQL
ASP.NET and MSSQL
CGI and/or Perl
Java, e.g. J2EE or WebObjects
Python, e.g. Django (web framework)
Ruby, e.g. Ruby on Rails
Smalltalk e.g. Seaside
ColdFusion
Lotus Domino
In practice, many web developers will also have interdisciplinary skills / roles, including:
Graphic design / web design
Information architecture and copywriting/copyediting with web usability, accessibility and search engine optimization in mind
Project management, QA and other aspects common to IT development in general
The above list is a simple website development hierarchy and can be extended to include all client side and server side aspects. It is still important to remember that web development is generally split up into client side coding covering aspects such as the layout and design, then server side coding, which covers the website's functionality and back end systems.
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
Looking at these items from an "umbrella approach", client side coding such as XHTML is executed and stored on a local client (in a web browser) whereas server side code is not available to a client and is executed on a web server which generates the appropriate XHTML which is then sent to the client. As the nature of client side coding allows you to alter the HTML on a local client and refresh the pages with updated content (locally), web designers must bear in mind the importance and relevance to security with their server side scripts. If a server side script accepts content from a locally modified client side script, the web development of that page shows poor sanitization with relation to security.
Web development as an industry
Since the mid-1990s, web development has been one of the fastest growing industries in the world. In 1995 there were fewer than 1,000 web development companies in the United States alone, but by 2005 there were over 30,000 such companies.[1][citation needed] The web development industry is expected to grow over 20% by 2010. The growth of this industry is being pushed by large businesses wishing to sell products and services to their customers and to automate business workflow, as well as the growth of many small web design and development companies.
In addition, cost of Web site development and hosting has dropped dramatically during this time. Instead of costing tens of thousands of dollars, as was the case for early websites, one can now develop a simple web site for less than a thousand dollars, depending on the complexity and amount of content.[citation needed] Smaller Web site development companies are now able to make web design accessible to both smaller companies and individuals further fueling the growth of the web development industry. As far as web development tools and platforms are concerned, there are many systems available to the public free of charge to aid in development. A popular example is the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), which is usually distributed free of charge. This fact alone has manifested into many people around the globe setting up new Web sites daily and thus contributing to increase in web development popularity. Another contributing factor has been the rise of easy to use WYSIWYG web development software, most prominently Microsoft FrontPage or Adobe Dreamweaver. Using such software, virtually anyone can develop a Web page in a matter of minutes. Knowledge of HyperText Markup Language (HTML), or other programming languages is not required, but recommended for professional results.
The next generation of web development tools uses the strong growth in LAMP and Microsoft .NET technologies to provide the Web as a way to run applications online. Web developers now help to deliver applications as Web services which were traditionally only available as applications on a desk based computer.
Instead of running executable code on a local computer, users are interacting with online applications to create new content. This has created new methods in communication and allowed for many opportunities to decentralize information and media distribution. Users are now able to interact with applications from many locations, instead of being tied to a specific workstation for their application environment.
Examples of dramatic transformation in communication and commerce led by web development include e-commerce. Online auction sites such as eBay have changed the way consumers consume and purchase goods and services. Online resellers such as Amazon.com and Buy.com (among many, many others) have transformed the shopping and bargain hunting experience for many consumers. Another good example of transformative communication led by web development is the blog. Web applications such as WordPress and b2evolution have created easily implemented blog environments for individual Web sites. Open source content systems such as Typo3, Xoops, Joomla, and Drupal have extended web development into new modes of interaction and communication.
In addition, cost of Web site development and hosting has dropped dramatically during this time. Instead of costing tens of thousands of dollars, as was the case for early websites, one can now develop a simple web site for less than a thousand dollars, depending on the complexity and amount of content.[citation needed] Smaller Web site development companies are now able to make web design accessible to both smaller companies and individuals further fueling the growth of the web development industry. As far as web development tools and platforms are concerned, there are many systems available to the public free of charge to aid in development. A popular example is the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), which is usually distributed free of charge. This fact alone has manifested into many people around the globe setting up new Web sites daily and thus contributing to increase in web development popularity. Another contributing factor has been the rise of easy to use WYSIWYG web development software, most prominently Microsoft FrontPage or Adobe Dreamweaver. Using such software, virtually anyone can develop a Web page in a matter of minutes. Knowledge of HyperText Markup Language (HTML), or other programming languages is not required, but recommended for professional results.
The next generation of web development tools uses the strong growth in LAMP and Microsoft .NET technologies to provide the Web as a way to run applications online. Web developers now help to deliver applications as Web services which were traditionally only available as applications on a desk based computer.
Instead of running executable code on a local computer, users are interacting with online applications to create new content. This has created new methods in communication and allowed for many opportunities to decentralize information and media distribution. Users are now able to interact with applications from many locations, instead of being tied to a specific workstation for their application environment.
Examples of dramatic transformation in communication and commerce led by web development include e-commerce. Online auction sites such as eBay have changed the way consumers consume and purchase goods and services. Online resellers such as Amazon.com and Buy.com (among many, many others) have transformed the shopping and bargain hunting experience for many consumers. Another good example of transformative communication led by web development is the blog. Web applications such as WordPress and b2evolution have created easily implemented blog environments for individual Web sites. Open source content systems such as Typo3, Xoops, Joomla, and Drupal have extended web development into new modes of interaction and communication.
Web Development
Web development is a broad term for any activities related to developing a web site for the World Wide Web or an intranet. This can include e-commerce business development, web design, web content development, client-side/server-side coding, and web server configuration. However, among web professionals, "web development" usually refers only to the non-design aspects of building web sites, e.g. writing markup and coding. Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, or social network services.
For larger businesses and organizations, web development teams can consist of hundreds of people (web developers). Smaller organizations may only require a single permanent or contracting webmaster, or secondary assignment to related job positions such as a graphic designer and/or Information systems technician. Web development may be a collaborative effort between departments rather than the domain of a designated department.
For larger businesses and organizations, web development teams can consist of hundreds of people (web developers). Smaller organizations may only require a single permanent or contracting webmaster, or secondary assignment to related job positions such as a graphic designer and/or Information systems technician. Web development may be a collaborative effort between departments rather than the domain of a designated department.
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