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You're unlikely to do well generating passive income. The profit is going to go to the person running the WP theme site or whatever. There's plenty of work doin

You're unlikely to do well generating passive income. The profit is going to go to the person running the WP theme site or whatever. There's plenty of work doing small business websites, though. Certainly it beats helping English majors try to recover the only copy of their thesis in the computer lab like I did in college. Send me an email with samples. I know people in need of someone on the technical side (sales, customer service and graphic design they already have covered). Web developers are a dime a dozen. Competent web developers are harder to find.

AdamTReineke 16y ago
Is there a skill set that defines a competent web developer?
- flacon 16y ago
  Solid cross-browser compliant code. You enjoy hanging out on Quirksmode. Deep understanding of JS and how to make things dance with frameworks like Jquery. Have a solid background with one server-side language (PHP, Ruby, Python etc) and have a lot to show with it. Understand what a HTTP request is. Understand what AJAX really is. Security: Know about SQL injection and CSRF. As a experienced web dev, I think thats a good place to start. There's a lot to know actually, usually takes 3-4 years for someone to even get decent.
  - sudont 16y ago
    To add on: Speed, use of both standards and best practices while retaining cross-browser compatibility. Helps to know web semantics as well, I see way too many headers as masthead logos or call-to-actions, rather than section titles and <div id=“logo”>
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