Practical web develop

Practical web development

Basic
In practice, many web developers will have basic interdisciplinary skills / roles, including:
Graphic design / web design
Information architecture and copywriting/copyediting with web usability, accessibility and search engine optimization in mind
The above list is a simple website development hierarchy and can be extended to include all client side and server side aspects. It is still important to remember that web development is generally split up into client side coding, covering aspects such as the layout and design, and server side coding, which covers the website's functionality and back-end systems.

Advanced
Some more advanced web developers will also have these interdisciplinary skills / roles:
GUI (Graphic User Interface) design
Audio, Video and Animation processing & encoding (for web usage)
Flash Capabilities (animation, audio, video, scripting)
Web content management system Deployment and/or Content management infrastructure design, development and integration
Web applications development, integration and deployment
Web server stress testing (how much traffic can a web server running a specific application endure before collapsing)

Web site security analysis & testing
Web site code optimization (which is an important aspect of search engine optimization)
Project management, QA and other aspects common to IT development