How to be a Ninja Web Developer

Found in Channel : Web Development — Damilare @ 9:33 pm No Comments »

The topic is “How to be a Ninja Web Developer“, not a “Naija Web Developer” I am not mistaken, trust me. A friend inspired this post. I had to evaluate the way I develop web applications following our invigorating debate on using frameworks or not. This also poses a question of whether to reuse libraries, pre-written scripts, templates or more. While I wouldn’t answer the posed questions, I’d go ahead and talk about how to be a Ninja Web developer, but first, who is a Ninja Web Developer?

A Ninja Web Developer has a fighting attitude to web development. He (or she) is fighting against, Comrade Time and Comrade Money. How much was he paid for the project, what he stands to gain, and what deadline is to be met. It is a duel to be fought, and if your Ninja skills are not strong enough, you would be defeated! That said, you should know that a Ninja Web Developer is not just developing web applications, but fighting against time and money, in which a loss is not accepted.

Now how do you become a Ninja Web Developer (a winning one at that)? Simply assimilate the list below.

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Web Development Tools I can’t do without

Found in Channel : Code Lab, Random Talks, Web Development — Damilare @ 9:46 am 1 Comment »

There are five web development tools I live by everyday and night. They are Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar, ColorZilla, PHP Designer and Adobe Fireworks. Good news is they are all free except the last two (there are open source alternatives).

Firebug

I’d say firebug is the most exciting of them all, making JavaScript debugging a lot easier. Firebug is a Mozilla Addon that explains the CSS, XHTML and JavaScript components on a web page.

Firebug is developed by Joe Hewitt of facebook. Read more on firebug on getfirebug.com

Web Developer Toolbar

Web Developer toolbar is a useful toolbar developed by Chris Pederick. WDT adds a menu to the firefox browser that gives you access to various tools like page Ruler to measure any dimension on your page, image information, edit any website’s XHTML and preview changes instantly, view style information and edit CSS files, and much more.

See more information on Web Development Toolbar on Chrispederick.com

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Starting a Domain, Hosting and Web Design Company in Nigeria

Found in Channel : Business Talks, Web Development — Damilare @ 4:20 pm 7 Comments »

If you are looking for a lucrative internet business to start, you should consider starting a Web Design Company, it’s till quite a niche area in Nigeria at the moment. But before you do, you need to get certain things in place. Neither coding HTML, nor crazy graphics designing is part of these.

First, you need to understand what it entails to getting a website. Secondly, you need to be able to explain the benefits to your prospective customers. You’ll get the former here, and in simple sentences, the later is up to you!

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Effective Web Design Process (Making of my Blog)

Found in Channel : Web Development — Damilare @ 2:09 pm 2 Comments »

What process do you follow when making websites? Having designed and developed websites for over 5 years, I have come to discover a very good process for developing websites. I am a process geek, therefore I believe every activity that must be repeated, must fall within a designed process. That paves way for process innovation.

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