Digital Career: Web developer – Data Analytics

by · 07/01/2020

MY Digital Career: Web developer
Digital careers

Digital Career

1.1 Digital Career: Web developer

The trend of my digital career is directing towards the web development, as my previous study is programming and now, I have another chance to study Business information technology and excel HTML, CSS and JAVA script as demand and trend is changed significantly towards digital business and everything is online from marketing to advertising (Lopez, 2014).

Digital careers, I conducted research for the front-end developer salary using MATRIX 2019 IT Salary Snapshots. There are many IT options for me but most appealing is a web developer because it suite my personal and capacity.

According to (Reese, 2019) web developer duties start by meeting clients and determine their needs, write codes, create and test applications and integrate the written materials, videos, audio, and graphic into the website. I have the knowledge and experience to interpret the customers’ needs to the full website whether personal, commercial or any other purpose.

I have conducted some research e.g. answer the public website to know more about this career path and I found there is a big demand for this job and stills there is gab need to be filled.

Prospects UK also one of my resources for the search for Information Technology jobs and specific web developer and these are support my decision to flow this career.

Channels:

Personal branding helps individual define themselves in their work-space and incorporating the personal elements that make them unique and the world want to know what professional and expertise you have through the real-time connectivity of online (Calvo-Lorenzo, 2016)

To enhance my personal brand there are many channels available for me. First, social media and for the purpose of professional career am going to use LinkedIn and Twitter as a professional social media platform and I will keep Facebook and Instagram for social life.

For my Digital Careers Personal website is one of the most powerful channels which is our guest speaker (AJ Handley-Rowe, 2019) mentioned to use and market yourself. I have examined the choices available to me from Wix.com, WordPress.com, WordPress.org.

I Have my personal website on creative hive using WordPress.org  but I started looking for the professional hosting provider to allow me to customise and use coding.

According (ionos.com, 2019) WordPress.org is the best CMS in 2019 and has the highest market share by around 18 million websites use WordPress (Appendix A).

I have decided to use WordPress.org hosted by Bluehost as number one recommended by WordPress (Appendix B). And has highest security protection and support 24/7 so I bought the domain with the hosting from Bluehost with full security packages. There are a lot of themes and plugins in WordPress.org which I could use to optimize my website in addition to flexibility write some codes

Continents:

3.1  AIDA model:

AIDA model

The aims of marketing are to attract potential customers’ attention, to increase their interest and desire to act (Hadiyati, 2016). This is a good approach am going to use this model for my continent marketing.

Attention: create attention and awareness of my personal brand through the website and social media channels.

Interest: encourage engagement to my channels through the comments and share by producing interesting continents.

Desire: Generate desire towards me by positive reviews and testimonial.

Action: the previous steps attention, interest, and desire will lead to offering me the dream job which is the action through my contact.

I am looking for questions and topics about the web developer through answer the public what others in the field and I will write some posts about it.

Types of the continent:

The content is intended to use it on my website.

Home page: My name, my picture, the purpose of the website, mission statement, what I offer, professionalism, social media link, site navigate.

Blog: a blog post with photos and videos, allowing comments and guest posts.

About me: my career, previous experience and qualifications and any interesting things about me.

CV: provide full A curriculum vitae, from work experience, educations, and digital skills.

Contact: contact form and email address.

Data:

My website hosted is by Bluehost with full security package and using site lock security, code guard basic, WordFence plugin and all in One WP Security & Firewall to protect my data.

Our guest speaker (Sarah Green, 2019) Information Security Manager from Optima Energy Systems Ltd, provides a method to use stronger password and easy to remember and unique for each account.   

Updating the WordPress, plugins and theme automatically and manually.

Change the setting and add security questions and limit the attempt of login 

 Sucuri SiteCheck scanner will check the website for known malware, viruses, blacklisting status, website errors, and out-of-date software, and malicious code.

Use of W3 Total Cache to faster my website.

Use of monsterinsights plugin website Analytics to determine the date and number of visitors to my website and how people interact with the contents.

To backup my data am going to use VaultPress (part of Jetpack) and BackupBuddy.

Twitter analytics ( Appendix D) understand which tweets work best, and which tweets are a bit of a flop also to analyze my best-performing tweets to look for patterns and understand the audience.

I will use webmaster tools to check indexing status and optimize visibility of the website.

Other tools:

WPForms:  For email marketing use it with an active Constant Contact account

Keyword planner: Planning the content to stay relevant

WP Super Cache : For speed

Elementor Page Builder: Easy to build and navigate the website

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References:

Ibrahim Mustafa Elamin

A multi-skilled Supply Chain Management specialist with over 08' years’ experience with the United Nations Department of Peace-Keeping Operations – DPKO. Web Developer with a focus on the Front-End of high-quality marketing and e-commerce websites and scalable applications. Highly proactive, a team player, creative and passionate about tech and supply chain

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