Web Development: The Ultimate Beginners Guide

What is Web development and who is a web developer?

Web development is the art of bringing a design to life and making it accessible to users across the internet using programming languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Who is a web developer?

A web developer is someone who take a design and the required functionalities as to what the client wants and turns it into a website.

A web developer is a very important person or role in the Tech industry as they design what users are able to see and interact with.

“According to Siteefy, there are approximately 1.13billion websites on the internet”

Who built them? Web Developers did.

Education in Web development

Back in the days, One would have to get a degree from a university to even be considered a web developer.

Currently, about 63.8% of developers are self-taught, this has been made quits easy as we now have online learning platform like Udemy and others. but I recommend you get a degree in Computer science or a related field.

Gender Based?

Not really, but 81.7% of web developers are male and 17.4% are female. It’s a pretty big gap to fill but it doesn’t mean male developers are generally better than female developers, I know some female developers who are better than some male developers, So don’t get discouraged. Anyone can become Anything

A web Developer’s Salary?

An average web developer earns around $75,000 in the United States and as high as $120,000 or even more, mainly depends on level of experience and your Employer.

Demand for Web Developers?

There are approximately 27.7million web developers globally, Asia has about 6.5million and the United States has about 4.4million with California having the highest number at around 600,000 developers.

The web development industry is worth at an estimated $56billion dollars in 2021 and expected to reach $89+billion dollars by 2027.

This clearly shows that web developers are in high demand and salaries keep increasing.

Conclusion

This wraps up today’s story, you now have a better understanding about web development.

It’s an industry fueled by talents form around the world form North America to Asian and other places.

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