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Stephen Praise
Stephen Praise

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Start your career as a frontend developer with these tips!

To begin a new job, you must acquire the necessary skills.
You can learn these abilities in a variety of methods and with a variety of resources, but the route isn't always clear with so many alternatives available, and for someone just starting out, it may be daunting.

My goal in creating this is to actually guide you through the process and figuring out the path. Are you ready to take on a new challenge?

Who are front-end developers?
Have you ever looked at a website and wondered how it worked? How a website's layout looks on different screen sizes or how a button behaves when clicked? Frontend Developers are responsible for all of this and more.

What you need to know for now

  • The internet and How it works
  • HTML
  • CSS3
  • Javascript

The internet and How it works
You should know what HTTP is.
Find out more about the Domain Name System (DNS)
How to obtain a domain name and web hosting
HTML, in my opinion, is the cornerstone of web design. As a result, I want you to perceive it that way as well.

What is HTML?
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language.

The core technology used to determine the structure of a webpage β€” HTML β€” is essential to building webpages. To define whether a paragraph, list, header, link, picture, multimedia player or form should be shown on a web page in HTML is essential This is really awesome, isn't it?
Here's my learning route for you.

Learn the foundations (very important)
Conventions and Best Practices
Semantic HTML Semantic HTML elements are those that explicitly express their meaning in a human- and machine-readable manner.
Elements like as header, footer, and article are all deemed semantic since they correctly define the element's purpose and the sort of information it contains.

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