What Skills are Required for a Front‑End Developer?
Front‑end developer skills explained, from HTML, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, debugging, Git, APIs, frameworks, responsive design, and communication.
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Development is the broadest category in my writing, so it works as the main archive rather than a narrow subject label. It brings together implementation notes and technical decisions, with delivery lessons from across the rest of the site.
What Skills are Required for a Front‑End Developer? 
CSS Visual Order is Not Document Order. CSS Visual Order is Not Document Order
See why CSS visual order can differ from document, reading, and focus order, with Flexbox and Grid examples plus a safer responsive structure to test.
What is an HTML Entity? What is an HTML Entity?
HTML entities explained through reserved characters, invisible spaces, ampersands, symbols, punctuation, browser rendering, and when entities are useful.
Renaming and Destructuring Variables in ES6. Renaming and Destructuring Variables in ES6
Perhaps one of the most‑used but misunderstood features of ES6, destructuring data is easy to use and leads to cleaner, simpler code and happier developers!
How to Choose a React Developer. How to Choose a React Developer
Hiring a React developer is about more than matching keywords. This guide looks at fundamentals, judgement, and what good front‑end signals look like.
Create Arrays of Any Size with Placeholder Content in JavaScript. Create Arrays of Any Size with Placeholder Content in JavaScript
There are many different ways of creating placeholder arrays in JavaScript ‑ whether the array itself is a placeholder, or simply the content within it.
The Quirks of z‑index. The Quirks of
z‑indexDebug z‑index quirks in CSS by understanding positioning, stacking contexts, opacity, transforms, huge values, and why layers still misbehave.
Life as a Freelance Developer in Brighton. Life as a Freelance Developer in Brighton
Freelance development in Brighton examined honestly, covering seaside appeal, local community, high costs, commuting, limited local work, and trade‑offs.
Announcing Dynamic Updates with ARIA Live Regions. Announcing Dynamic Updates with ARIA Live Regions
Use ARIA live regions for dynamic status updates, choose polite or assertive announcements, handle repeated messages, and know when focus should move.
Ethical Web Development II: Accessibility and Inclusivity. Ethical Web Development II: Accessibility and Inclusivity
Ethical web development part two covers accessibility, inclusivity, WCAG, open source responsibility, and how developers can make safer web experiences.
How to Hire a Freelance Front‑End Developer. How to Hire a Freelance Front‑End Developer
Hire a freelance front‑end developer by clarifying scope, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, testing, performance, debugging, frameworks, and collaboration needs.
Ethical Web Development I: Privacy, Consent and Security. Ethical Web Development I: Privacy, Consent and Security
Why web developers are responsible for protecting user privacy, rejecting manipulative consent patterns and building secure, maintainable websites.
UK Freelance Front‑End Developer Rates in 2021. UK Freelance Front‑End Developer Rates in 2021
A 2021 guide to UK freelance front‑end developer day rates and how skills, experience, location and project type affected pricing and demand.
The Differences Between Lead and Senior Roles in Front‑End Development. The Differences Between Lead and Senior Roles in Front‑End Development
Lead and senior front‑end roles overlap, but they are not the same job. This article looks at delivery, ownership, mentoring, and decision‑making.
Block Bad Bots Using .htaccess. Block Bad Bots Using
.htaccessBlock bad bots with .htaccess and robots.txt, including why unwanted crawlers waste bandwidth, where rules help, and what to treat with caution too.
What Does Front‑End Development Mean? What Does Front‑End Development Mean?
What front‑end development means, what front‑end developers actually build, and how HTML, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, and performance fit together.
Front‑End Web Development: A Beginner’s Introduction. Front‑End Web Development: A Beginner's Introduction
Front‑end web development explained through HTML, CSS, JavaScript, UI work, browser behaviour, back‑end integration, and what front‑end developers do.
Access CSS Variables from a Database via db-connect. Access CSS Variables from a Database via
db‑connectIn CSS, db‑connect is a misunderstood but immensely useful technique for connecting to databases directly from vanilla CSS in order to access stored properties.
