The many opportunities that exist in the area of web development in Nigeria are not being taken by Nigerians especially where these opportunities require programming knowledge as more and more businesses or corporations are now demanding websites that are not just static websites.
Many website owners believe they want something more than 3 - 10 pages of static website with some animations. They want to achieve tasks online, they want their clients to be able to achieve certain tasks right on their websites.
Agreed, it takes time to learn programming and it takes practice, logical reasoning and experience to become a good programmer but that is where he money is.
You can do a project that takes you just 3 days and pocket N400,000.00 just like that.
A situation whereby a very great majority of web developers are either web designers or graphic designers is certainly not in the best interest of Nigerians as the likes of google, yahoo, youtube etc did not become successful by being static websites.
Anyone that wants to make real money should consider learning programming, not the usual claims that we see people make even when they don't have anything to backup those claims.
As a typical example of what you can achieve as a programmer I spent less than 3 days developing (from conception to completion) a database driven website for States to use in Nigeria.
Comes with an admin interface where every single thing can be changed or updated without any need to contact the developer.
So, if it takes less than 3 days to setup this website you can imagine what web applications Nigerians could come up with if we have a lot of programmers who will come to the table with many wonderful ideas that could generate money in a matter of days, weeks or months without having to do anything illegal.
The link to the website is - www.jwspreview.com/stategov
The website may not be flashy or beautiful but it has more useful functionalities when compared to a lot of government websites that are just static websites that are hardly updated.
Currently I am having a tough time deciding what to do with the website as I intended it to be given away to all the State Governments for free but 100% of the people I have discussed this free offer with believe that I should not do it.
The next couple of hours or days may decide the direction the 3 days project will go
