Archive for the ‘front-end’ tag
How I Became a Front-end Developer
In the first quarter of 2004 I was employed as a truck driver for Moynihan Lumber in Beverly, Massachusetts. My job was to deliver new doors, windows, and lumber to contractors and homeowners in the process of remodeling or building a home in the Eastern Massachusetts area.
I would arrive at the warehouse at 7 a.m., fill up a 24′ box truck with the first round of orders, and be out on the road making deliveries by 9 a.m. Shortly after lunch I would come back to the warehouse with an empty truck and fill it up with a second round of orders. By about 5 p.m., that second round of orders would be delivered and I would go home.
Lets go back in time some more, all the way back to 1999.
Website Front-end Quality Control Considerations
A good web agency utilizes some form of quality control during the creation of their clients’ websites. Often, one phase of this process consists of putting the website through a handful of tests, typically towards the tail end of the project. These tests can include anything from checking the security of the database to how a color-blind visitor might interpret the design details. Since I am a lover of all things front-end (design, markup, and CSS), there are a few details that I always test to help ensure a good user experience for the visitor and to reduce browser inconsistencies.
