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The document discusses front-end web development, including common tasks like creating and updating webpages, improving responsiveness and performance, and adding accessibility features. It covers the core technologies of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It also discusses common front-end roles like front-end designers who translate designs to webpages and front-end engineers who focus on functionality and scalability.

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Front End

The document discusses front-end web development, including common tasks like creating and updating webpages, improving responsiveness and performance, and adding accessibility features. It covers the core technologies of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It also discusses common front-end roles like front-end designers who translate designs to webpages and front-end engineers who focus on functionality and scalability.

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Front-End

Published Mar 11, 2022•Updated Oct 14, 2022

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The front-end of a website includes elements that the end user interacts with
directly. A lot goes into front-end development, including:

• Styling for the overall look of the website such as buttons, layouts,
inputs, text, and images.
• Accessibility features like text-to-speech, voice recognition, simple user
flows, and more make websites easier to use and provide a better user
experience.
• Improvements to performance and speed for a better user experience.

Common Tasks
Front-end web development can involve a variety of tasks, including:

• Creating and updating webpages.


• Building HTML emails for email campaigns.
• Making sure webpages are responsive and work well on phones or
tablets.
• Improving website performance by cleaning and splitting code.
• Adding and improving accessibility features.
Front-End Technologies
The following are the three core techologies used in front-end development:

• HTML, the “skeleton” of a webpage, is used to structure the content’s


layout and general behavior on the browser.
• CSS, the “skin and clothes” of the webpage, gives browsers more specific
information on styling content, like the size and color of text or the look
and layout of a group of elements.
• JavaScript is executed on both the client-side and server-side to bring
interactivity to elements such as maps and animated graphics.

Front-End Developers also use other tools, ranging from content management
systems (CMSs) like WordPress and Drupal to libraries and frameworks
like React, Angular, and Vue. Libraries and frameworks allow you to use a
blueprint to create web elements like buttons rather than creating a new one
every time.

Careers in Front-End
While there are various roles and titles in the world of front-end development,
the two primary roles are front-end design and front-end engineering.

Front-End Designers

Sometimes to known as a Front-End Interface Developer, this role usually


takes static media such as drawings or images and translates them into
webpages. This is important, since all webpages for the same site should have
matching designs and be responsive to various screen sizes.

Front-End Engineers

This role is more focused on a webpage’s functionality and scalability. Some


Front-End Engineers also work on design if their workplace uses the two roles
interchangeably.

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