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If i learned those programs could i get a job as a developer?

Programs and web pages are made using language’s not so much software and any language can be written in a simple notepad.

There are all types of software helpers but if you don’t know the language you won’t be able to control them either.

For the web start with HTML & CSS which will lead you to the other popular languages ie, java script, xhtml, dhtml.

For programming; Visual Basic and the C languages are good to start with.

If i learned those programs could i get a job as a developer?

Programs and web pages are made using language’s not so much software and any language can be written in a simple notepad.

There are all types of software helpers but if you don’t know the language you won’t be able to control them either.

For the web start with HTML & CSS which will lead you to the other popular languages ie, java script, xhtml, dhtml.

For programming; Visual Basic and the C languages are good to start with.

I see some people who charge $75/hour and that is a RIPOFF! Where can I find a web designer who doesn’t charge by hour?

As others have said, $75 is not a rip off. Its a fairly standard rate.

Web developers have the unfortunate task of charging for something that is intangible in itself and the value of which is determined by the industry at large. As with any industry, you pay for quality and experience.

If you go to odesk.com or one of those outsourcing sites, you can probably go with a low ball offer and get some kid in Russia or India to do the site for you for $500. A word of warning though, if you outsource like that, and the project loses steam then you (usually) have no way of contacting your developer except via email. Factor in the potential language barrier, inconvenience and potential lack of support and you’d probably be better getting it done by someone closer to home.

It really depends on how anxious you are to get your site/product out there. Do you pay a designer/developer team $5000 to get a well designed, fully indexed and ranked site so you can concentrate on your business and have the best chance of recruiting clients, or do you save some money and build your online presence more slowly?

My firm recently finished a site for a high-end optical retailer. It cost them almost $10,000 to get the site finished, but they made it back in the 15-20 online sales they had in the first month. Flash forward six months, they get 2-10 online sales a week as a result.

Your web presence is just as important facet of your marketing as anything else. Put money in the right places, and it’ll come back in sales.

I see some people who charge $75/hour and that is a RIPOFF! Where can I find a web designer who doesn’t charge by hour?

As others have said, $75 is not a rip off. Its a fairly standard rate.

Web developers have the unfortunate task of charging for something that is intangible in itself and the value of which is determined by the industry at large. As with any industry, you pay for quality and experience.

If you go to odesk.com or one of those outsourcing sites, you can probably go with a low ball offer and get some kid in Russia or India to do the site for you for $500. A word of warning though, if you outsource like that, and the project loses steam then you (usually) have no way of contacting your developer except via email. Factor in the potential language barrier, inconvenience and potential lack of support and you’d probably be better getting it done by someone closer to home.

It really depends on how anxious you are to get your site/product out there. Do you pay a designer/developer team $5000 to get a well designed, fully indexed and ranked site so you can concentrate on your business and have the best chance of recruiting clients, or do you save some money and build your online presence more slowly?

My firm recently finished a site for a high-end optical retailer. It cost them almost $10,000 to get the site finished, but they made it back in the 15-20 online sales they had in the first month. Flash forward six months, they get 2-10 online sales a week as a result.

Your web presence is just as important facet of your marketing as anything else. Put money in the right places, and it’ll come back in sales.

I am a freelance web programmer and considering to get a new machine with Vista installed. I hear many compatibility issues though.

These are the programs I must be able to run on.

IIS web server with multiple websites (on Ultimate I read so)
SQL Server 2005 (2000 possible ?)
MySQL 4.1
VS.NET
Zend Studio
Photoshop

Do any web developers/programmers successfully work on Windows Vista? Want to hear some experiences. Links to the issues will also be appreciated.

SQL Server 2005 and VS.NET work fine for me, I never got mySQL to work correctly, but I think its mostly me not setting it up correctly. With SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle Express running all at once, I was required to push my machine to 2Gb of RAM. I did not run multiple websites, so I don’t know how that will work out for you.

I am creating a website Frontpage and i cant figure out how to do something. I want to create something so when a user places the cursor over an advertisment for example it will expand revealing more details but when the cursor is taken off the advertisment it will shrink back to its orginal size. How would i go about doing this?

you need to do a couple things to do this (mostly because IE and others don’t follow the same rules, IE ignores most of the standards).

The best way to do it would be to use AJAX, there are many impimentations that hide these differences. I am currently using Dojo (http://www.dojotoolkit.org/ ) but yahoo also has an implimentation (among others).

The actual way to do this depends on how that extra information is aquired. If you just want to use two images with more info in the second, you just need to use a roll over -
<a href="link.html"><img src="img1.jpg" onmouseover=" this.src = ‘img2.jpg’;" onmouseout=" this.src = ‘img2.jpg’;" /> </a>

As mention the number one set up for a self hosted blog is wordpress.org. This is a FREE script you download and then upload to your server/site. Once uploaded you will need to create a msql database for your blog.

These are also know as content management systems as you mange the content from within a admin section. All you do is write the text then publish every thing else is done through the script.

So the answer to your question is they use a database to run the blog. Hosting your own blog has it’s advantages, you can write what ever you want. You are also not subject to the TOS you get if you use one of those hosted blogs ie wordpress.com or blogger.

Hope this of some help,
geoff

I hear that they came out with wordpress and you don’t need any coding knowledge to make the site.

I’m asking this question as an exagerration kinda, I’m studying to be an interactive designer and it is a bit worrisome. So I’m learning how to use this also.

While wordpress is nice fundamentally, you may find that you want to add some feature that the system doesn’t already contain. Possibly you need it customized for your business, you’ll still need a designer/developer to implement a redesign and add new code. And then there are just those people who like to hard-code everything themselves and have total control over what’s going on in the background. In the end, wordpress is not a fix-it for every project, and is possibly even overkill for some.

is a web developer a millionaire or billionaire,in other words can a web developer easily afford a new Rolls Royce phantom 2009(can a web developer have $500k has a mare pocket cash)
if no which set of people can (by careers/occupations and earnings).

if possible which set of people earn nothing less than $1m per month/ $1b per year

I’m a web developer and I make $1M a month. But that’s not the same as $1B per year.

http://www.webdeveloper.com/

is the best one