How to define your skills on a CV, what questions to expect in development job interviews and how best to showcase work?

I'm just approaching a point where I'm starting to dip my toe into the job market. I've been with Treehouse for a few months now and it's really done the trick!

I've had a couple of interviews already and prepared for development related questions by searching for likely question to come up . As you can imagine, I found lots of the random and the bazaar, but no genuine, gritty breakdown of an interview specifically for web development.

My biggest hang up: How to gauge and describe your skill-set on a CV in a fair and accurate way.

I've found this really hard. I don't know about you, but I spend all my time working on web development. Either taking courses on Treehouse or applying my knowledge on small (but increasingly frequent) jobs for friends of friends etc. I therefore have no idea how good/bad I am for lack of contact and comparison with other developers. Having said that, I'm obviously not going to be a pro after 6 months but I also wouldn't describe myself as a complete beginner. I could say intermediate, but it's very open to interpretation and 'amateur' suggests hobbyist.

What a pickle.

My current skill section looks like this:

Coding: Comfortable: html5, css3, php, phpMyAdmin, WordPress Up and coming: jquery, javascript, MySQL, db architecture, git Just starting out: Ruby on Rails, SASS, custom WordPress templates

Design: Comfortable: Premiere Pro, Photoshop, DreamWeaver Up and coming: Muse, Reflow, Illustrator Just starting out: After Effects, Edge Animate

I am very interested in personal development and to indicate this to an employer, I've split my skills for both coding and design into three main categories: 'Comfortable', 'Up and coming' and 'Just starting out'. I'm hoping this shows continued development and that I'm learning new things.

I switched out 'Confident' with 'Comfortable' after a recent interview - Beware: I learned very quickly that when an employer reads 'Confident' it suggests "This person will be able to complete any task I set in this language". This didn't go down to well when I flunked the interview test when I couldn't answer 50% of the questions.

With the word comfortable, I'm trying to say:

• has a feel for the language
• If I don't know how to do something, I can navigate and read the appropriate documentation/resources/...google.
• Solid grounding with some intermediate/advanced skills (I think they're intermediate/advanced? As I said.. I literally have no idea what 'good' or 'advanced' means in programming).

So what would/do you put on your own CV to describe your skills? Is there a checklist or benchmark of things you should definitely know how to do before you can say "I'm fantastic at php".

Have you got any interview advice you can share?

Do you/can you showcase, say, the php code from your latest project?