Frontend web designer/developer

Skills Required to Become a Front End Web Developer

The basic skills needed for this role are knowledge of a markup language, web browsers, styling and scripting language. Here are some specific basic skills.

• 1. Knowledge of one Markup Language: HTML – This includes knowledge of HTML syntax and tags (including HTML5).                                                                                                                                

• 2. Knowledge of a Styling Language: CSS – This includes basic knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets(including CSS 2 and CSS 3)                                                                                                                  

• 3. Knowledge of a Client Side Scripting Language, primarily JavaScript (and jQuery) – This includes good skills on working with Javascript and the jQuery library.

         Additional Skills:

• Knowledge of cross browser testing and debugging.
• Knowledge of performance optimization using tools such as PageSpeed.
• Knowledge of Photoshop and a CMS like WordPress.
• Knowledge of object oriented programming (OOP) and PHP.
• Knowledge of SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
• Knowledge of animation tools like Flash and Dreamviewer.