Here, it's art and science of web development that's fun part. Juggling a variety of e-commerce vendors for different e-commerce needs (or performing in-house technical work of commerce-enabling a client site) can be infinitely less rewarding than primary web design/development.

Unfortunately, most clients don't spend a lot time reviewing nuances of source code - that weird cipher rippling beneath surface of their web pages. Instead, business functionality is their primary goal - and online credit card authorization may supplant web artistry on your clients' list of priorities. And rightly so - it's their business at stake.

So on web developer's plate, you have responsibility of translating a client's vision into a web-based reality, of mobilizing underlying code. In many cases, you also have additional task of e-commerce enabling site - integrating e-commerce systems and coordinating various service providers. Synchronizing these latter aspects of development can be frustrating, regardless of whether you outsource or perform tasks in-house.

Here, you may be required to organize secure server hosting, integrate an automated payment processing system and secure order page, incorporate catalog and shopping cart functionality, and in some cases you may even have to help swing a card-not-present merchant account so your client can accept credit cards on Internet. There's a lot of detail work to manage.

2. It's a good idea to put URL of each page on bottom of document. This makes it easier for people who have downloaded your page to disk to revisit it. I often find myself wishing more people would do this, especially for type of page that eventually becomes out-of-date.