1. So you wanna be a web
developer?
Secrets that I wish someone told me when I was
starting out
2. ABOUT ME
Dhruv Patel
•Designer / User experience designer /
Front-end designer / Conversion
optimization expert
•Founder of Convrrt and Omazing
Creations, LLC
•Twitter handle: @sylphdesign
•Love to talk about making web more
accessible for everyone, playing cricket,
partying, *spraying champagne bottles*
@sylphdesign
dhruv@convrrt.com
www.convrrt.com
www.omazingcreations.com
3. WHAT GOT ME STARTED?
• Passion for being creative
• Started taking web design and graphic design courses at early age
• Self learned to become photoshop guru
• What’s the next challenge? Web graphics? Print media? Animation?
3d?
10. PRO TIPS
Awesome indicators in your resume:
• What technologies do you use? -
HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript (jQuery)
• SASS, LESS, STYLUS
• BASIC HTML/CSS/jQuery (PSD to HTML)
- Lots of jobs
• Github - Create an account - put your own
work on github. Be active
• What text editor do you use?
• What OS do you use?
Jquery
• Dom Traversals (find li in an unordered
list)
• Can you navigate the dom decently
well in jQuery?
• jQuery user events (clicks/mouse over
> smart events)
• jQuery Ajax (Get requests - eg. get list
of tweets)
• jQuery plugins (implement them on a
web page)
11. PRO TIPS CONT.
What if you don’t have job experience?
• Create your own job experience - build sites for other people
• Make sites for a non-profit. Help them convert their dated site to bootstrap
• Take existing popular sites and code them yourself on how you’d do it different to make the
user experience better.
• Write blogs on topics to improve the web.
• Learn Wordpress / Drupal etc.
• Put your resume online - Get connected with recruiters (DO NOT PUT YOUR PHONE
NUMBER)
• Look for side jobs on Craigslist if you are looking to build your resume
