This is the New term I heard now a days in some Designer Portfolio. What is the Role of Front End Developer. Is the role is the same as the Web Designer.?
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Yes this is a web designer, as the UI is often called front-end.
These guys are mostly responsible for the HTML/CSS, graphics and layout of the website. Sometimes they are familiar with UI technologies (ASPX/Master Pages. FTL, JSF, Velocity), sometimes not. depending on their exact role in the project
Midhat
2009-05-04 05:24:25
A developer is not the same as a designer. Designers are photo-shoppers. Front end developers specialize in front end technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash/Actionscript etc. Most often they don't even touch photoshop (other than to cut an image out).
Luke
2009-05-04 06:24:11
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This is an excellent explanation of what a Front-End Developer should be able to do: http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/fed2.html
tester
2009-05-04 05:26:02
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In a large team, the developer of the front-end could be a separate role from the designer: the latter is responsible mostly for looks (CSS & constraints on the HTML so that the CSS works as intended), the former for the "logical/behavioral" part of the front end (and also needing to negotiate the APIs or REST details with the back-end developers).
Alex Martelli
2009-05-04 05:37:10
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A front-end developer handles the public facing side of your website, a back-end developer handles the back end, like pulling information from a database, and maybe even creating the database for small sites. A front-end developer does HTML, CSS, Javascript. The back-end developer does the PHP, C#, XML.