Front-end web development

Let's lay the foundation by understanding what we would be stepping into.

1- What is front-end web development

Have you ever visited a web page or a website and thought- "oh, wow! this website is cool!" or "oh my gosh I love this page!", well, the awesomeness you see was made by the front-end developer. Front-end web development is also known as the client-side development. It is the development of the graphical user interface (what users interact with). It can done using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Front-end developers ensures that users enjoy the usage and navigation on a website.

2- Skills needed to be a front-end developer

With HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you are ready to begin your front-end web development journey. With these skills, you will be able to create dynamic web pages.

• HTML

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup language. It is a mark-up language designed to display documents and contents on a browser. It is made up of elements which comprises of tags and contents.

• CSS

  CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet. It is called a cascading style sheet because it gives styles to some selected elements. It is made up of selectors and declarations( Properties and Property values)

• JavaScript

JavaScript also known as JS is the programming language if the web. It is object-oriented and scripting language. JS together with HTML and CSS is used to develop dynamic web pages or websites. Not only that, it can also be used for back-end web development, game development and many other things. It is made up of a sequence of statements and expressions ended by semicolon.

Take time to understand the above, we'll get our hands dirty in the next article ;-)