Re: Qualifications for a Web Designer/Developer

>What qualifications (i.e. key skills, must-have
experience) are
>required to be recognized by employers as a professional
web designer
>/ developer (be it in a library or non-library
environment)?

I was a professional programmer/developer for almost ten
years, starting before the WWW portion of Internet was
around.  The answer to you question can vary quite a bit,
depending on the type of industry, whether you are working
with a team or alone, and the type of website.  Corporate,
library, small business, and university web developers
sometimes differ a lot in the specific skills they use on a
day-to-day basis.  

Web programmers (as opposed to interface/layout/design
folks) are often under pressure to write code very, very,
very quickly.  Extensive formalized testing, rigorous
development methodologies, formal versioning, etc. are
excellent practices (and important ones to learn), but they
are not always practical when you are handed an assignment
to produce a brand new bit of code in two hours.   

There are several different types of web developer.  The
four broadest classifications include programmers, system
administrators, artists, and layout/interface design
specialists.  In the not-so-distant past developers were
expected to have all the skills from each of these
categories; nowadays, there is a tendency to have more
focused skills, and many more sub-specialties.  Some
businesses have one or more people in each of those roles,
while in others one person is still expected to handle
everything (which is the case in most libraries).  

In day-to-day practice, a good set of basic skills to have
for a one-person-shop web developer would be:

Coding/scripting/programming - PERL, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET,
JAVA, JavaScript, SQL, and experience playing with various
APIs (Google and Amazon, for example)

Databases - MS SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL, Oracle

Platforms - Windows environment, UNIX, and LINUX 

Graphics - ability to use PhotoShop fairly well

Layout/Design - thorough understanding of CSS, XML,
JavaScript, effective interface design, effective layout
strategies, and (of course) HTML

Web-based technology changes constantly, so professional web
developers of any type have to be fairly rigorous about
keeping up with new developments and learning new skills. 
You generally will not have any time at work to do that, so
expect to do a lot of self-education in your off-hours.

One of the most important things you can do is develop an
online portfolio of your work.  At least some of the
websites should be for real groups or companies.  One of the
best ways for a new developer to get experience with these
is to offer to do free websites for non-profit
organizations.

Good luck!

Jesse Ephraim

Youth Services Librarian
Southlake Public Library
1400 Main Street, Suite 130
Southlake, TX  76092
(817) 748-8248
jephraimci.southlake.tx.us

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   7. New Facebook Information Groups Launched (Gerry
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Creech)
   9. Re: Brilliant Database Marketing Campaign (John
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  10. Enticing Libraries (praveenkrishna veeramalla)
  11. ONLINE BOOKS  (sri priya)
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  13. Re: Brilliant Database Marketing Campaign (Deb
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  14. Qualifications for a Web Designer/Developer (David
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  16. The Library of Congress Seeks Repository Developer
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:56:53 -0400
From: "Yvonne M Mulhern" <miss.cybrariangmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign
To: "K.G. Schneider" <kgsbluehighways.com>
Cc: web4libwebjunction.org
Message-ID:
	<4922a83e0709190956j50f62c70y8b29cf456bf0670fmail.gmail.com>
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No need to apologize. It is "Talk Like A Pirate"
Day, after all.

http://www.talklikeap
irate.com/

On 9/19/07, K.G. Schneider <kgsbluehighways.com>
wrote:
>
> Arrr, me beauties, what says "I love
libraries" better than a nekkid
> wench reading a book?
>
> (Sorry, the pirate in me could not resist)
>
> K.G. Schneider
> kgsfreerangelibrarian.com
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:01:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign
To: web4libwebjunction.org
Message-ID: <743267.6328.qmweb57102.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Janice Christopher said:

  "It *is* a 'nekkid wench reading a book', BTW. You
see enough mudflaps, you know..."

  Although I think it's more tastefully rendered than some
"mudflap girls".

  Bernie Sloan

Janice Christopher <Janice.Christopheruconn.edu> wrote:

And for me -- I grew up in Wyoming and now live elsewhere --
the whole campaign brings on a mighty big pang of
homesickness.

It *is* a "nekkid wench reading a book", BTW. You
see enough mudflaps, you know...

janice
-------------
Janice Christopher
Catalog Management Librarian
Univ. of Connecticut
860.486.2636
janice.christopheruconn.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org]On Behalf
Of Robert L. Balliot
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:57 AM
> To: 'K.G. Schneider'; web4libwebjunction.org
> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign
> 
> 
> Greetings Karen,
> 
> When I look at the graphic
> jpg> , I do
not see a
"nekkid wench reading a book". I see a silhouette

the resembles a person reading a book.

I guess that is part of the brilliance of the
campaign - the graphic triggers an emotional
reaction irrelevant to the message that broadens
the impact of the message. In your case, it
brought out a pirate, in others it might bring
out someone's inner leprechaun . 

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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org] On Behalf Of K.G.
Schneider
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:15 AM
To: web4libwebjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign

Arrr, me beauties, what says "I love libraries"
better than a nekkid
wench reading a book? 

(Sorry, the pirate in me could not resist)

K.G. Schneider
kgsfreerangelibrarian.com
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:54:45 -0400
From: "Martyn, Maureen" <MartyMparl.gc.ca>
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign
To: <rballiotoceanstatelibrarian.com>,	"Janice
Christopher"
	<Janice.Christopheruconn.edu>,	"K.G. Schneider"
	<kgsbluehighways.com>, <web4libwebjunction.org>
Message-ID:
	<FF10BE84EB29BF43B569E1EF03CF8A6B03A7C394excbe04z.hoc-cdc.ca>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="iso-8859-1"

OK, it took a mudflap girl to get me to decloak after a
decade in the lurk zone. But... 

Check out this camouflage very closely. I have a jacket made
from this material. To keep on topic, it might make a good
book jacket.

htt
p://www.ladybuttonfabrics.com/cgi-bin/fabricshop/gallery.cgi
?func=show&file=16&Category=28&v=1

Born to be a pirate, forced to work,

Maureen Martyn
Senior Project Manager / Gestionnaire de projet principale
Multimedia Services / Services multimédias
House of Commons / Chambre des communes

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org] On Behalf Of Robert L.
Balliot
Sent: September 19, 2007 11:39 AM
To: 'Janice Christopher'; 'K.G. Schneider'; web4libwebjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign

Greetings Janice, 

So for you, a mudflap creates homesickness.  Another reacted
that she was 'appalled' and yet another that she would not
want her daughter involved.

The thing is, they are not the same thing.

This is the original:  http://en.w
ikipedia.org/wiki/Mudflap_girl

This is the spin-off:
http://www.wyominglibraries.org/images/mudflap-g
irl-bookmark.jpg

Sometimes a mudflap is just a mudflap. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Janice Christopher [mailto:Janice.Christopheruconn.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:31 AM
To: rballiotoceanstatelibrarian.com; K.G. Schneider; web4libwebjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign

And for me -- I grew up in Wyoming and now live elsewhere --
the whole
campaign brings on a mighty big pang of homesickness.

It *is* a "nekkid wench reading a book", BTW. You
see enough mudflaps, you
know...

janice
-------------
Janice Christopher
Catalog Management Librarian
Univ. of Connecticut
860.486.2636
janice.christopheruconn.edu

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:18:49 -0400
From: "Hill, Holly K Ms CIV USA IMCOM"
<holly.k.hillus.army.mil>
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign
	(UNCLASSIFIED)
To: <web4libwebjunction.org>
Message-ID:
	<4DDFA666414F184789F15C770333A2A603C30F15knoxbe011000002.nase.ds.army.mil>

Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED 
Caveats: NONE

 K.G. Schneider, that fine figure of a scurvey sea dog,
declaimed 

Arrr, me beauties, what says "I love libraries"
better than a nekkid
wench reading a book? 

(Sorry, the pirate in me could not resist)

But I says, I do, that I'd druther espy a nekkid rogue
readin' a book!  

Holly Hill
Guild of Radical Militant Librarian Pirates
Aaargh, scimus quae legis, et non dicimus, matey!!

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:01 PM
To: web4libwebjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign

Janice Christopher said:

  "It *is* a 'nekkid wench reading a book', BTW. You
see enough
mudflaps, you know..."

  Although I think it's more tastefully rendered than some
"mudflap
girls".

  Bernie Sloan

Janice Christopher <Janice.Christopheruconn.edu> wrote:

Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED 
Caveats: NONE

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:32:39 -0400
From: "K.G. Schneider" <kgsbluehighways.com>
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign
	(UNCLASSIFIED)
To: web4libwebjunction.org
Message-ID: <1190226759.32028.1211530987webmail.messagingengine.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"

> But I says, I do, that I'd druther espy a nekkid rogue
readin' a book!  
>  

Then lassies could ask, arrrr, 'tis that a National Union
Catalog in yer
pocket, or are ye only attemptin' to greet me?

Pirate Karen

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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:30:09 -0600
From: "Erin Kinney" <EKINNEstate.wy.us>
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign
To: web4libwebjunction.org
Message-ID: <46F14E91.9D7D.00D9.0state.wy.us>
Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset="US-ASCII"

Exactly, Robert.  I think this image generates a gut
reaction in many people that they don't see beyond that to
what she really is--a silhouette of a girl reading.  

I'm a native Californian living in Wyoming and webmistress
for the WyomingLibraries.org site.  I've seen a ton of
action on my photos of her on my Flickr account http://www.
flickr.com/people/wyolibrarian   Most people are very
supportive of this and even if they don't like the image
understand what we are trying to accomplish--trying to get
traditional non-library users to use library services like
the Chilton Automotive Service Guides.  We need to go to
them and offer them what they want and need whether or not
they step foot in an actual library building.

Erin

______________________________
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Wyoming State Library
516 S. Greeley Hwy.
Cheyenne, WY 82002
Email: ekinnestate.wy.us
Phone: (307) 777-6332
http://will.state.wy.us/

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>>> "Robert L. Balliot" <rballiotoceanstatelibrarian.com> 9/19/2007 9:39 AM
>>>

Greetings Janice, 

So for you, a mudflap creates homesickness.  Another reacted
that
she was 'appalled' and yet another that she would not want
her daughter
involved.

The thing is, they are not the same thing.

This is the original:  http://en.w
ikipedia.org/wiki/Mudflap_girl 

This is the spin-off:
http://www.wyominglibraries.org/images/mudflap-g
irl-bookmark.jpg 

Sometimes a mudflap is just a mudflap. 

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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:57:38 -0500
From: "Gerry Mckiernan" <gerrymckiastate.edu>
Subject: [Web4lib] New Facebook Information Groups Launched
To: <lita-lala1.ala.org>, <ASIS-Ltardis.slis.indiana.edu>,
	<web4libwebjunction.org>
Message-ID: <46F16312.B59E.0067.0lib.iastate.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS***

Friends/

I am pleased to announce the formal establishment of two new
Facebook Information Groups (FIGs):

**Engineering-Information-Sources-SNS**
Type: Common Interest - Science 
Description: Science-and-Technology-Information-Sources-SNS
is global Facebook group intended to serve a forum and venue
for the presentation, consideration, and discussion of any
and all matters relating to Engineering information sources.

The Science-And-Technology-Information-Sources-SNS Facebook
group is dedicated to Gustave Eiffel. 

[ http://iastate.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17844979320
]

**Science-And-Technology-Information-Sources-SNS**
Type: Common Interest - Science 
Description: Science-And-Technology-Information-Sources-SNS
is global Facebook group intended to serve a forum and venue
for the presentation, consideration, and discussion of any
and all matters relating to Science and Technology
information sources. 

The Science-And-Technology-Information-Sources-SNS Facebook
group is dedicated to Sir Issac Newton 

[ 
http://iastate.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6155366866 ]

I have also created  **Facebook Information Groups (FIG)** 

Type: Internet & Technology - Cyberculture 
Description: The Facebook Information Groups group is
intended to serve as a venue in which interested and
concerned parties can discuss any and all issues relating to
the use of Facebook as a replacement for current listservs
and other electronic discussion list technologies. 

[ 
http://iastate.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5055907636 ]

Please Do VISIT / JOIN / PARTICIPATE !

Thanks!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

!!! Social Networking is People !!!
[ ht
tp://www.facebook.com/p/Gerry_McKiernan/16926735  ]

Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind
Blows ...
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ternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]

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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:07:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Creech <John.Creechcwu.EDU>
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign
To: Erin Kinney <EKINNEstate.wy.us>
Cc: web4libwebjunction.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709191557590.14193barchetta.lib.cwu.edu>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Erin Kinney wrote:

>  We need to go to them and offer them what they want
and 
> need whether or not they step foot in an actual library
building.

So true!  As a North Carolina native relocated to central
Washington I 
live in a county 82 miles wide with twice as many bovine
residents as 
humans, and with a top 25 PRCA rodeo.  Whatever my opinions,
something 
like this Wyoming project would be a HUGE hit here.  They'd
probably give 
the keys to the town to my Dean...if there are any keys.

John Creech, Systems Librarian
Brooks Library, Central Washington University

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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:11:38 -0400
From: "John Reynolds" <jomireyn3gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign
To: web4libwebjunction.org
Message-ID:
	<ce34551b0709192011xd626b33gd152cebcb89d2c43mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Wow -I've been seeing those since I was an adolescent boy
and never
realized she was nekkid! Wonders never cease.

On 9/19/07, Janice Christopher <Janice.Christopheruconn.edu> wrote:
>
> And for me -- I grew up in Wyoming and now live
elsewhere -- the whole campaign brings on a mighty big pang
of homesickness.
>
> It *is* a "nekkid wench reading a book", BTW.
You see enough mudflaps, you know...
>
> janice
> -------------
> Janice Christopher
> Catalog Management Librarian
> Univ. of Connecticut
> 860.486.2636
> janice.christopheruconn.edu
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org
> > [mailto:web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org]On Behalf
Of Robert L. Balliot
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:57 AM
> > To: 'K.G. Schneider'; web4libwebjunction.org
> > Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database
Marketing Campaign
> >
> >
> > Greetings Karen,
> >
> > When I look at the graphic
> > <http://www.wyominglibraries.org/images/mudflap-girl
-bookmark.
> jpg> , I do
> not see a
> "nekkid wench reading a book".  I see a
silhouette
> <http://en
.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silhouette>
> the resembles a person reading a book.
>
> I guess that is part of the brilliance of the
> campaign - the graphic triggers an emotional
> reaction irrelevant to the message that broadens
> the impact of the message. In your case, it
> brought out a pirate, in others it might bring
> out someone's inner leprechaun <http://en
.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun> .
>
> *************************************************
> Join: http://gotbooks.ning.com/
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounceswebjunction.org] On Behalf
Of K.G. Schneider
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:15 AM
> To: web4libwebjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign
>
> Arrr, me beauties, what says "I love
libraries" better than a nekkid
> wench reading a book?
>
> (Sorry, the pirate in me could not resist)
>
> K.G. Schneider
> kgsfreerangelibrarian.com
> _______________________________________________
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:42:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: praveenkrishna veeramalla
<praveenkrishnaveeramallayahoo.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] Enticing Libraries
To: web4libwebjunction.org
Message-ID: <942531.20029.qmweb58905.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

Felt like sharing it with you.
I am sure ,our moods will definitely change to a magical
realm by looking at the pictures.But the thing is, Our
modern libraries cant give a competition to these historic
libraries as they are becoming digital to virtual day by
day.

http://www.curiousexpeditions.org/2
007/09/librophiliac_love_letter_a_com.html

Warm Regards,
Praveen  krishna Veeramalla
Assistant Knowledge Manager

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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:55:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: sri priya <sri_libyahoo.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] ONLINE BOOKS 
To: oss4lib-discusslists.sourceforge.net,
	free-forall@yahoogroups.com, web4libwebjunction.org
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ONLINE BOOKS 

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BookWire (Bowker) http://www.bookwire.com/

Brave new e-books, http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/03/29/ebo
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  Regards,
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Message: 12
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:18:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: sri priya <sri_libyahoo.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] FreeTechBooks.com
To: oss4lib-discusslists.sourceforge.net,
	free-forall@yahoogroups.com, web4libwebjunction.org
Message-ID: <297250.44186.qmweb57014.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

FreeTechBooks.com

  This site lists free online computer science, engineering
and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of
which are legally and freely available over the Internet. 

Throughout this site, other terms are used to refer to a
book, such as ebook, text, document, monogram or notes. 

  http://www.freetech
books.com/ index.php

  Digital Libraries (Digital Libraries and Electronic
Publishing) 

  An integrated overview of the creation and the
distribution over networks of all types of information,
ranging from converted historical materials to kinds of
information that have no analogues in the physical world. 

  http://www.freetech
books.com/ forum-32. html

  Regards,
  S.Sripriya

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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:20:03 -0500
From: Deb Bergeron <bergeronmacalester.edu>
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Brilliant Database Marketing
Campaign
To: Steve Johnston <wyominglibrarianhotmail.com>
Cc: web4libwebjunction.org
Message-ID: <46F27383.9070409macalester.edu>
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I Love this!  Is there a male equivalent?  I need mudflaps
on my Subaru 
(a manual tranny). 

Deb

Steve Johnston wrote:
> Have you seen the newest Wyoming Libraries Marketing
Campaign?
>  
> http://
www.wyominglibraries.org/campaign.html
>  
> They are using a picture of a reading "mudflap
girl" to advertise their new statewide
ChiltonLibrary.com auto repair manual database.  They are
planning to put her into autopart stores all around the
state to let male non-library users know about the new
database.
>  
> They are also using bumper stickers to reach the
traditional crowd:  http://www.wyomingli
braries.org/
>  
> What a great way to reach out to new library users!   
>  
> Steve Johnston
> Wyominglibrarianhotmail.com
>
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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:43:24 -0400
From: "David Kemper" <siansleepgmail.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] Qualifications for a Web
Designer/Developer
To: web4lib <web4libwebjunction.org>
Message-ID:
	<279898a50709200643u27b2ee8bq34c88f219be87187mail.gmail.com>
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Colleagues,

Following on the heels of my previous question on
transitioning myself
from informal "web guy" to a web professional, I
have another
question:

What qualifications (i.e. key skills, must-have experience)
are
required to be recognized by employers as a professional web
designer
/ developer (be it in a library or non-library
environment)?

Your input is much appreciated. Feel free to email me off
the list at
siansleepgmail.com.

Thank you.

David

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Message: 15
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:56:37 -0400
From: Will Kurt <wkurtbbn.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] Jottit
To: web4libwebjunction.org
Message-ID: <7.0.0.16.2.20070920093903.04aec958bbn.com>
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I'm not sure whether everybody on this list already knows
about this 
or not, but I haven't seen any posts and I'm already seeing
a lot of 
people in other communities start making use of it.

Aaron Swartz (who's also the technical lead on the Open
Library 
project among about a bazillion other things) officially
released 
<http://jotti
t.com/>http://jottit.com/ a few days ago. 
Conceptually 
Jottit is both simple and amazing.  All it is a text box,
you enter 
your text and viola! A page is created.   This virtually
eliminates 
the barrier to web publishing and is perfect for all of
those "Ohh I 
just want to post this on a static webpage real quick"
moments where 
even a simple blog is too much infrastructure.

Anyway it's a wonderful, simple and flexible platform and I
just 
wanted to make sure that everyone was aware that it's out
there.

--Will

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Message: 16
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:12:48 -0400
From: "Stephen Engratt" <sengloc.gov>
Subject: [Web4lib] The Library of Congress Seeks Repository
Developer
To: <web4libwebjunction.org>
Message-ID: <46F247A0020000950002609Antgwgate.loc.gov>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

** Cross Posted **

The Office of Strategic Initiatives at The Library of
Congress has embarked upon a major digital library
initiative, part of which involves the design and
development of digital repository systems. These systems
will support acquisition, preservation and access for a
large number of digital collections spanning a wide variety
of content types and formats. Successful candidates will
have extensive experience managing information technology
projects. Working knowledge of digital library technologies
and experience in digital library projects will be regarded
very positively. Successful candidates will work as members
of a team to design, develop, document and support new or
existing software systems within a repository development
program.

For more information on this position please visit the
following link:
http://jsearch.usa
jobs.opm.gov/getjob.asp?JobId=62451862&AVSDM=2007%2D09%2
D14+10%3A58%3A10 

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Message: 17
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:02:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jonathan Gorman <jtgormanuiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Qualifications for a Web
Designer/Developer
To: David Kemper <siansleepgmail.com>,	web4lib
	<web4libwebjunction.org>
Message-ID: <20070920100237.AXQ01814expms4.cites.uiuc.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

David Kemper wrote:
>What qualifications (i.e. key skills, must-have
experience) are
>required to be recognized by employers as a professional
web designer
>/ developer (be it in a library or non-library
environment)?

Some things I'd be looking for if I was hiring for a
position like this:

Design Aspects

1) Grasp of design and usability.   At least demonstration
that they know some common usability practices as well some
resources for finding out more.  (Alertbox comes to mind)
Even better, they know how to do the testing as well.  

2) Demonstrated knowledge about CSS and more modern ways of
creating webpages.  Knowledge of techniques and
demonstration of various workarounds for IE.  I'd like to
see that the person follows resources like A List Apart.  A
good discussion of positioning nightmares of CSS would also
convince me they're not just parroting some of the pundits
on this issue.

3) Good artistic eye, an ability to make a clear display. 
I'd like to see a variety of pages in a portfolio that shows
the range the person can do while still maintaining an
attractive page, good design and good usability. 

4) Creativity and originality in the portfolio.

Developer side:
1) Good understanding of Javascript.  Not just the ability
to modify existing scripts but explain to me things like the
event model, DOM, and maybe even how AJAX works.  I'd be
very cautious of someone who seems to do a lot of cut and
pasting.  Code reuse is a very good idea, but simply shoving
code in is a warning sign of cargo-cult programming. 
Cargo-cult programming seems more common among web
developers than some others.  Using a library or an api,
however, is a good sign.

2) I'd like to see experience in PHP and possibly Perl. 
Some example code.  Some discussion of various software
development methodologies.  How do they test code, keep
track of modifications, collaborate with others?  I'd like
to see someone who uses versioning and some form of quality
control, ideally unit testing and regressive testing.

3) Good understanding about web servers and the http
protocol.  Doesn't need to be a wiz, but should be able to
tell when to use a GET or a POST at least.  Ideally would
know enough about web servers to be able to configure them
and even do things like mod_rewrite for Apache.

4) No fear of playing around with new systems and web
applications.  They should have some experience with things
like CMS, blog software, wikis from a perspective of the
publisher of information.  

4) Ideally, some demonstration curiosity in new techniques
and languages.  I'd look for someone who's played with Ruby
on Rails, Scriptaculous (http://script.aculo.us/)
and things like that.  I'd avoid someone who is t

Ok, I realize that this is an unlikely find and also
probably describes some of my own biases.  But overall I'd
look for someone who has some good fundamentals as far as
documentation, development, and design.  Details can be
taught and new languages can be learned.  It's harder to
predict how long good habits take to accumulate. 
Personalities certainly can't be established very well in an
interview process, but they can be hinted at.

Enough babbling.  Hopefully I haven't frightened anyone.

Jon Gorman

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Message: 18
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:37:17 -0400
From: "David Bietila" <bietilagelman.gwu.edu>
Subject: [Web4lib] Position available: Associate University
Librarian
	for	Digital Initiatives & Technical Services
To: <web4libwebjunction.org>
Message-ID: <46F25B6D020000840000693Bgwia.nw.gwu.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

The George Washington University Gelman Library System seeks
applications from and nominations of experienced, innovative
librarians for the senior-level administrative position of
Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives &
Technical Services.  The person who fills this position will
have the opportunity to lead a dynamic, multi-faceted
digital services program and take a lead role in developing
policies and implementing changes in digital planning and
services not just within the library system but in the
Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) and the
University, and will assist with the re-visioning project
currently under way with our technical services
infrastructure.  This person will also work closely with the
AUL for Collections and Scholarly Communication to develop
and lead a new digital publishing initiative for the
University.

This position reports to the University Librarian and works
closely with three other Associate University Librarians as
part of the administrative team that provides leadership for
the library system. For the full position description and
application requirements please see http://
www.gwu.edu/gelman/library/employment/ 

The George Washington University is an equal
opportunity/affirmative action employer. 

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Message: 19
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:48:06 -0400
From: Sandra Cahillane <scahillabaypath.edu>
Subject: [Web4lib] tagging software for individual
documents
To: web4libwebjunction.org
Message-ID:
	<OF90B7D067.508CF56C-ON8525735C.0056A397-8525735C.0056CD
41baypath.edu>

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Hello all,

A faculty member is "looking for software that will
allow multiple people
to tag/index the content of a single document/website--i.e.,
to tag
sentences and paragraphs within a multi-paragraph
document."  He believes
this software already exists.  Does anyone know any details
about it?

Thanks,
Sandy

Sandy Cahillane
Systems and Reference Librarian
Bay Path College
Hatch Library
588 Longmeadow Street
Longmeadow, MA  01106
(413) 567-4529 or (413) 565-1376
fax-(413) 567-8345

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