Ten Things a Modern Website Should Do – from launchinteractivemedia.com
This is part 3 of our series on evaluating your website. After evaluating your existing site we will now examine some characteristics that your site should posses. Your website should…
1. Speak to its audience
2. Be search engine friendly
3. Use a content management system (CMS)
4. Include search
5. Have a professional design
6. Limit use of custom code
7. Be interactive
8. Track analytics
9. Have a “Call to Action”
10. Contain appropriate content
What does a front-end web developer do?
Here is an interesting article from onlinetools.org.
Front-end web developers, the “artists” formerly known as web designers are the bunch of people in the company that make sure that the data coming from the backend gets displayed on the browser. They also make sure it looks as closely as possible as the design, that , CED came up with, and that the user can navigate through it, accessing the data.
They don’t need to know about complex OO programming, tricky database structures or how a path is done in Illustrator. They get data from the backend people and an example how the result looks like from CED. All they need to do is to hack some HTML or XSLT together and link the different documents. Piece of cake.
Web developers don’t have it as easy as it sounds though. True enough, markup languages are easy to learn and scripting languages are not much harder, but there is an aspect of uncertainty, that has to be taken into consideration, when judging their skills.
As a web developer you work in an uncertain environment. What looks good and works on your computer can be a popup hell and dire to look at on the machine next to you or on the machine of a customer. The first is not much of a problem, just ask your colleague to upgrade his browser, the second, however, is a problem… more >>