Must-have skills for a freelance web developer

ablaye · 02-27-2008, 09:23 PM

Here are some skills that I think every freelance web developer should have to succeed in todays' web design job market:

PHP/MySQL
Ajax
Javascript
CSS
Basic photoshop skills

Can you think of any other skills that I missed that are a must-have?

pendelton · 02-27-2008, 11:50 PM

I would not say that you would need much more than a basic understanding of any thing in your list. If you knew some of the hacks that are designing sites, that are making good money, and haven't a clue on some of this stuff you would be surprised.

If you must make a must have list though you should add Windows, Linux, apache, java, perl, c++, XML, TCP/IP, and XHTML.

ablaye · 02-29-2008, 08:18 AM

Thanks for the feedback.
Among those that you mention, I would only add to the list, Linux/Apache and XML knowledge.
One does not need to have Java, Perl or TCP/IP knowledge in todays' web development market. Very few people use Perl for web scripting. Java is only for software and web applications and NOT for web design. TCP/IP is just theory about how the internet works that you really don't need to know to build a website.