Comments on: Steps to becoming a front-end web developer

By: Natasha H.

Natasha H. — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:39:49 +0000

Excellent post! I’ve been trying to figure out what would constitue as front end developing and how to go about learning it. I’ll definitely be following these steps.

Thanks for the post!

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By: admin

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:36:39 +0000

jQuery is around 56 KB, and MooTools is around 62K. The 16KB is when it is gzipped on the server. Both jQuery and MooTools can be gzipped. The difference between the two is with jQuery you have to always include the whole library. With MooTools you can download only a part of the core library as needed for your project, making it more “lightweight”.

By: jitendra vyas

jitendra vyas — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:41:00 +0000

Here you mentioned Mootools as a lighweight among all why . compresses jquery size is only 16 kb while Mootools compressed version is 65 kb

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By: Abdulhakim Haliru

Abdulhakim Haliru — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:49:35 +0000

great motivational piece here Gaya, but candidly speaking i do not believe there is a margin between a designer and a front-end guy in today’s web development or if i may put it another way round; the designer comes before the front-end web developer. hence the front-end web-developer should be familiar and able to run with a graphic editing software like Photoshop or any other.

short of that little bit, you have done a great job here. Keep the spirit.

By: Tyler Hayes

Tyler Hayes — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:39:37 +0000

I’ve yet to really step into my own with Javascript frameworks (or the language itself), but I think reading a book is a great idea. I’m not usually a fan of reading coding books, as they become outdated fairly quickly; but, I think in this case I can make an exception.

Keep up the great work Gaya!

By: Gaya Kessler

Gaya Kessler — Wed, 27 May 2009 08:06:21 +0000

Thanks for all the comments people :)

@Chris Walllace: Very true! That’s what makes someone professional or not :)
@Paul: My first JS framework was Scriptaculous, it did teach me a lot about Javascript coding.
@Sean McArthur: Thanks for the heads up!
@Dicky: CSS Frameworks look cool indeed :) might give that a quick look later on.

By: Meshach

Meshach — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:08:35 +0000

Scriptaculous for the win! ;)

By: Dicky

Dicky — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:06:16 +0000

Once your get yourself familiar with CSS, you should start look into CSS Framework, either use a popular framework or develop yourself.

By: magesh

magesh — Sun, 24 May 2009 20:29:39 +0000

really usefull post

By: Sean McArthur

Sean McArthur — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:10:19 +0000

I feel the Javascript frameworks were misrepresented a bit. jQuery is certainly excellent for beginners interested in accessing the DOM.

But Prototype and MooTools are both competent as well. And MooTools is just as powerful as Prototype for building RIAs.

There’s a new write-up comparing MooTools and jQuery pretty fairly – http://jqueryvsmootools.com