Web design is a flexible professional field, one that affords prospective students multiple ways to gain the training and experience necessary to begin their careers.

Below is the overview of steps interested individuals can take to enter this career fields of web design in Kenya.

GET AN EDUCATION- not necessarily a degree.

No specific degree or educational path exists for careers in web design, and it is possible to become a web designer with or without a formal education. While its certainly possible to learn coding languages independently, there is more to web design than coding.

Individuals who can implement coding skills within a broader context may have an advantage, and that’s where a formal education can help prospective developers gain foundational knowledge of web design principles and practices, expose them to project management and situations that require problem solving and encourage critical thinking.

Even universities and colleges don’t give practical hands-on training on website design and development. So, to be successful as a web designer in Kenya, you need to practical hands-on training and that is exactly what ORACOM WEB SOLUTIONS LTD gives in Kenya.

DEVELOP TECHNICAL SKILLS

Despite the real advantages that come with an organized education, web design is still a field in which concrete skills can trump education when it comes to employment opportunities.

Companies wants employees who can produce, and how or where something was learned is secondary or simply being able to do it. Prospective web designers should have expertise in the two core programming components: frontend- HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Frameworks such as Bootstrap, and Foundation also to build applications, designers should be proficient in back-end languages such as Ruby, Java, PHP, Mongo DB, Node js and tools such as Oracle & SQL Server.

PRACTICE YOUR CODING SKILS

Web designers learn by doing. Set up a GitHub account and push code to the site. An active GitHub Profile can get the attention of employers searching through stacks of resumes, and demonstrates not only what candidate does to solve programming issues, but also the thinking and strategies behind those solutions.

LAUNCH AN ONLINE PORTFOLIO

Employers want to see results, such as current examples of successful site and application builds. With a portfolio, developers can test new technologies and tools as well as demonstrate their coding talent & technical capabilities.

A web designer that does not have any functional website is like a driver without a car.

SOCIAL MEDIA- build your online presence

Web design in Kenya without social presence won’t make you successful. It is imperative to build your online presence, and social media is one avenue to grow it. Make sure you have a profile on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

CONCLUSION.

Becoming a successful Web Designer in Kenya may not be that easy, but is very possible, interesting, and lucrative. First you need to learn web design in practical hands-on training in Kenya. Also  understand that successful people fail often, but what makes them successful? It is when they never give up, instead find out why your first attempt didn’t work and find new and better ways of doing things. Remember that web design in Kenya is nit an easy one, there are lots of web designers out, but the encouraging thing is that there are a lot of web design and development jobs out there in Kenya.