Front-End Development

Front-End Development - The Very Integral Part of Web Development Cycle

When it comes to web development, it is seen that more importance is given to backend development. People generally think that front-end development is only about designing and styling, and it is so easy that anyone can do it. In this post, we shall look at the complexities that are involved in the front-end development.

What does it mean?

Front-End development basically means creating the user interface, using which your website visitors will be able to engage and interact with your website.

Some of its essential basic elements are:

Markup language
Style
Cross platform compatibility
Cross browser compatibility
Cross device functionalities
CMS and templates
Performance and usability testing
and lots more

From the above mentioned points, it is clear that the front-end development is a very integral part of the entire development cycle. It is not just about making good looking web pages, and using the style elements to make it look attractive.

Developers working on the front-end side will need to have the sensitivity of understanding pulse of the visitors for that particular website. All websites cannot be designed to look similar to each other.

Websites must have been designed in accordance to various aspects like:

Visitor demographics
Age group of targeted audience
According to the product or service type
Frequency of visits
etc

Front-end development also acts as the bridge to backend development and CMS database. If your have dynamic pages, then your visitors will be entering their information on the web pages. It will then get validated and processed with the backend programs, and then the data gets stored in the database.

To conclude, we can see that how important is the focus on front-end development in order to create successful websites, which give the best user experiences to the visitors.