Also referred to as the client-side developer or simply as the frontender, the front-end developer is responsible for making certain a Web site looks the way it is supposed to look when it is accessed by Web visitors. The front-end developer is not to be confused with the designer, who develops the aesthetic plans for the site, or with the programmer, who is responsible for converting static pages into dynamic ones. Rather, the front-end developer falls somewhere in between, as he or she must convert the artwork that was prepared by the graphic designer into a real working Website while also cleaning up the programming and other aspects of the site in order to make certain it looks as the designer intended - no matter who is looking at the site. (
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