To me, a web producer may not necessarily be incredibly good
at coding in a
specific language, but has varied experiences in many of
them. Also, a web
producer has good idea of the backend technologies that are
involved in
webpages, massmails, forms, blogs, etc. And finally and in
no way the least,
actually I would probably say the most important, would be
to have a good
capability of interacting/guiding others such as your
designer or network
engineer in almost a project manager kind of way; you have
to be able to
bring in everyone to do their part at the correct time, on
time, and in a
manner that is compatible with the other contributers. Think
of a Producer
as a circus ringmaster. 
But having a good idea of certain web languages is helpful,
because even if
you are not the best coder necessarily, if you hire out a
project or are
talking to an in-house designer you need to know what you
are talking about
and the capabilities that the web currently has available.
So along those lines, I would suggest you to get a tiny bit
more of an
understanding of other languages such as Javascript, CSS,
PHP, or ASP
(especially CSS.) Either, take a class from your local
community college, or
offer to redo a website for a local nonprofit who needs it.
Then maybe spend
a couple hours with a friend who knows CSS to get some basic
directions, or
just hunker down with zengarden and go crazy. CSS is
invaluable in todays
web and is very very tasty.
My fave CSS sites:
http://www.csszengarden.
com/
http://www.
maxdesign.com.au/presentation/
Do you know someone who is a SQL Engineer? Take them out for
coffee on a
Sunday afternoon with a laptop and try to understand a few
things on how
db's interact with the web; how queries are built etc. This
information
personally was invaluable to me when I worked on a major
sports site which
streamed in sports data, inserted it into a sql db, which
then I had to
program to call to create tables of data on my website.
Have you ever done the steps to buy your own domain,
register, find a host
for your site, etc? I might suggest doing this for your own
personal site.
This would give you a place to practice. This network
engineer/sysadmin kind
of stuff is important to know even if just rudimentarily. I
personally am a
godaddy and laughingsquid user.
Everyone is into blogs nowadays. Get into them too, because
someday at some
point your company CEO will want one. *sigh*
I personally prefer wordpress. Might be a good idea to
install your own too
at your new URL you have from above paragraph. You will
learn a lot of CSS
from the themes they have available also- tinker away.
Good luck Lauren!
-Sharon
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On 3/8/06, Lauren Ribando <lribando hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm new to the list so I hope I am doing this right.
I am interested in a
> job as a Web Producer and would like to know if anyone
can offer some
> advice,tips, job agencies in Manhattan, etc. I'm not
new to the field of
> WebProduction, I have worked as a producer/interface
developer for about
> fouryears but I only know HTML. My situation right
now: I work for a
> great
> company but have little responsibilities. I code the
company's graphic
> emails in HTML and have been doing so for over 3 years.
I was promoted
> last
> year and asked to work on more projects (a few times)
but it hasn't
> happened
> and it's been over a year so I feel like it might be
time to move on.
>
> If anyone can offer some insight on what other skills I
need to brush up
> and/or learn, books, classes, or share your own
experiences on how you
> climbed the corporate ladder it would be greatly
appreciated. Also, any
> freelance gigs you know of that might help me out and
add some more skills
> tomy resume would be nice too.
>
> I can post my email/resume or send to you directly.
>
>
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