[webproducers] Re: Mentor

To me, a web producer may not necessarily be incredibly good at coding in a
specific language, but has varied experiences in many of them. Also, a web
producer has good idea of the backend technologies that are involved in
webpages, massmails, forms, blogs, etc. And finally and in no way the least,
actually I would probably say the most important, would be to have a good
capability of interacting/guiding others such as your designer or network
engineer in almost a project manager kind of way; you have to be able to
bring in everyone to do their part at the correct time, on time, and in a
manner that is compatible with the other contributers. Think of a Producer
as a circus ringmaster. :)
But having a good idea of certain web languages is helpful, because even if
you are not the best coder necessarily, if you hire out a project or are
talking to an in-house designer you need to know what you are talking about
and the capabilities that the web currently has available.

So along those lines, I would suggest you to get a tiny bit more of an
understanding of other languages such as Javascript, CSS, PHP, or ASP
(especially CSS.) Either, take a class from your local community college, or
offer to redo a website for a local nonprofit who needs it. Then maybe spend
a couple hours with a friend who knows CSS to get some basic directions, or
just hunker down with zengarden and go crazy. CSS is invaluable in todays
web and is very very tasty.
My fave CSS sites:
http://www.csszengarden.com/
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/

Do you know someone who is a SQL Engineer? Take them out for coffee on a
Sunday afternoon with a laptop and try to understand a few things on how
db's interact with the web; how queries are built etc. This information
personally was invaluable to me when I worked on a major sports site which
streamed in sports data, inserted it into a sql db, which then I had to
program to call to create tables of data on my website.

Have you ever done the steps to buy your own domain, register, find a host
for your site, etc? I might suggest doing this for your own personal site.
This would give you a place to practice. This network engineer/sysadmin kind
of stuff is important to know even if just rudimentarily. I personally am a
godaddy and laughingsquid user.

Everyone is into blogs nowadays. Get into them too, because someday at some
point your company CEO will want one. *sigh*
I personally prefer wordpress. Might be a good idea to install your own too
at your new URL you have from above paragraph. You will learn a lot of CSS
from the themes they have available also- tinker away.

Good luck Lauren!

-Sharon


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On 3/8/06, Lauren Ribando <lribando@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> I'm new to the list so I hope I am doing this right.  I am interested in a
> job as a Web Producer and would like to know if anyone can offer some
> advice,tips, job agencies in Manhattan, etc.  I'm not new to the field of
> WebProduction, I have worked as a producer/interface developer for about
> fouryears but I only know HTML.  My situation right now: I work for a
> great
> company but have little responsibilities.  I code the company's graphic
> emails in HTML and have been doing so for over 3 years.  I was promoted
> last
> year and asked to work on more projects (a few times) but it hasn't
> happened
> and it's been over a year so I feel like it might be time to move on.
>
> If anyone can offer some insight on what other skills I need to brush up
> and/or learn, books, classes, or share your own experiences on how you
> climbed the corporate ladder it would be greatly appreciated.  Also, any
> freelance gigs you know of that might help me out and add some more skills
> tomy resume would be nice too.
>
> I can post my email/resume or send to you directly.
>
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