John Horner schreef:
I'm interested in the "front end" part of the Dutch group's name.
We were having a discussion at work the other day about which skills
you should have to have in order to call yourself a "web developer".
I just finished a project which required knowledge of the following:
* HTML
* CSS
* Javascript
* XML
* Perl or PHP
* SQL
but what's the minimum set of skills we think someone should have to
call themselves a web developer?
I guess the minimum would be one of those from your list (although there
are many more languages/databases can be used of course). As soon as
you're working with code for the web, being either markup or
scripting/programming, you may call yourself a web developer in my
opinion. In the Netherlands 'web developer' is mostly used for back-end
developers though, of for people who do both front-end and back-end.
As long as it's a free profession, knowledge about best practices and
web standards are not really required. They are of course if you want to
be a good front-end developer. But if you built IE-only sites in a 1996
manner or just all Flash sites, you're still a web developer.
On the other hand... if you're an expert in accessibility or usability,
but you don't work on the code itself, you're not a developer in my
opinion, but an architect, consultant or interaction designer. In most
cases there's a great overlap though.
I use the term 'web designer' for visual and interaction designers
working for the web and 'webmaster' for those who are responsible for
maintaining the content.
To sum things up, for me a front-end developer uses at least one of the
following techniques:
- (X)HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript (client side)
- Flash (?)
cheers,
Sander
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