A super-quick introduction to

Front End Web Development.

(Hi! I'm your host, Ruthie.)

Front end web development is

the process

of writing code

that tells a browser

how a website

should look and behave.

Front end web development is

the process

of writing code

that tells a browser

how a website

should look and behave.

When we talk about writing front end code,we’re talking about these three languages:

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Front end web development is

the process

of writing code

that tells a browser

how a website

should look and behave.

Browsers are pieces of softwarethat display websites.

A browser is also called a client.

So, you may hear front-end developmentcalled client-side development.

Same thing.

Front end web development is

the process

of writing code

that tells a browser

how a website

should look and behave.

Q: What's the differencebetween a website and a web application?

A: The line is blurring.

Front end web development is

the process

of writing code

that tells a browser

how a website

should look and behave.

Though there's no one standardized web development workflow, we can think of it happening in three phases:

Q: What's the best way to combinethose phases into a method?

(waterfall, agile, hybrid, lean, extreme...)

A: It depends.

ROLES

• user experience design a.k.a. ux
• visual a.k.a. graphic design
• interaction design
• information architecture a.k.a. ia
• front-end aka client-side development
• back-end aka server-side development
• database administration
• server administration
• content strategy
• project management
• business analysis
• usability
• security
• quality assurance
• ...

ROLES

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Front end web development is

the process

of writing code

that tells a browser

how a website

should look and behave.

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Questions?

(Thanks!)