Web Developers develop and maintain website front-end creatives as well as back-end programming, database and applications. Web Developers have a strong sense of design and adhere to web standards. They develop web interfaces often called Graphic User Interfaces (GUI), for both software applications and basic web presentations. They have knowledge of several different graphic programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Macromedia Flash for multimedia presentations, and other such tools. They also have knowledge of middleware programming, scripting languages such as Javascript, markup languages such as HTML and XHTML, CSS, and communications skills to develop basic copy. In terms of Database knowledge, web developers must understand and create SQL server scripts, and stored procedures to send and retrieve data. Web Developers program with different languages, some open source and some proprietary, i.e. PHP and ASP or dotNET, respectively.

Web Developers often times work as teams with each developer a specialist in front-end development or back-end programming and or database development. Web developers that separate through specialities will often excell at their respective knowledge and coordinate better. Web developers also work independantly as contractors or as company web developer. These roles require full knowledge of web design principles and programming structures as they work alone.

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