Front-end Development

Once your website design has been completed, it's time to make it into a functional set of templates. This is front-end development and here's how it works...

The basics of front-end development

If you are unfamiliar with what is involved with front-end development it's a good idea to try and understand the basics. This will help you with your online project. HTML is a mark-up language that we use to define your website's content. Once the HTML has been created we can then style it and position the content accordingly. This is where we code the CSS. The advantage of CSS is that you can change the way your content is presented on your site simply buy changing a few values in your CSS files.

Making sure that your website works and looks correct in all the web browsers is incredibly important but you also need to consider how the site will look on other platforms. Mobile devices like iPhones, Blackberries and PDAs are a few examples of such platforms.

Web Standards for every website

Every website that we create here at GPMD has to conform to the current web standards, such as W3C, WCAG and CSS1.1. Building your website using standards has a lot of benefits:

The website is easier to update in the future
The website can be re-skinned easily
The website will work correctly in all browsers
The website will load faster
The website will perform better with search engines
...to name but a few.

If you would like to learn more about web standards then you are in luck. There are loads of resources on the net. Here are a few good links and you can also have a look through our blog.