Websites are everywhere. You’re on one right now. It’s the job of the web developer to create and update the vast internet we use daily. It’s an exciting and growing field, constantly changing. Web development is broken up into two parts, back-end, which is all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes, and front-end which involves all the visual elements you see before you on the page. I’ll be blogging about front-end today, and share with you some tools of the trade.
So front-end web development is like making a painting. You have a canvas, which is the blank browser screen, and you have full control and freedom over what you want your pages to look and feel like. It’s art. I’m a visual learner and an artist at heart, so front-end development was a natural fit when I was choosing an area of focus. It gives me the ability to create the sorts of websites I find visually appealing and actually want to use.
So if you think about websites and break them down, you’ll see that all websites on the surface are simply a collection of words, clickable buttons, pictures, dropdowns, scrollbars, and maybe a cool animation once in a while. That’s it! We build these pages with three programming languages: HTML, CSS, and Javascript. My next blog post will be an introduction to these three languages of the web.
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