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What is Front End Matters?

Front End Matters is a personal project of Suso Guez (Jesus Carrera Rodriguez), professional front end developer, and the objective is to create a place where the people can learn and be updated about front end matters, like HTML, CSS and JavaScript basically, but also subjects related like usability or web design. If you have never seen a line of code, I’ll have a course to get you started. If you are already advanced you might find here a solution for a particular problem that saves you time. Weekly I’ll post the most interesting news with practical application.

I use it also to host my portfolio.

Why is this different than other resources in the Internet?

There are a lot of resources in the Internet covering this, but I’ll approach it from a pragmatic, practical, and useful way for everyone from beginners to advanced. I think there is a big entry barrier to this technologies and the people get afraid of it in their firsts attempts to understand the online manual they found as first result in Google. Usually they go very technical and deep in some concepts that are absolutely not necessary to start. You can master more advanced techniques later on when you have a broader view of the picture. I think is easier to teach with practical exercises rather than trying to learn from an extensive manual, and mixing modern techniques that makes life easyer. More on this when I have the manual ready. Stay tuned!

If you are advanced, maybe you just want to use this as your news weekly update. Not fancy future techniques or lab experiments. Just what’s going on with practical application.

Which libraries/frameworks/programs do you use?

I use, have used and can use a lot of different tools depending on the project. The most important for you to know is that I use jQuery as JavaScript library, in my opinion today is the easier, lighter and most powerful, with a lot of plugins ready to use, so most of the JavaScript things will be made using jQuery. For HTML and CSS I was very purist and I didn’t like CSS frameworks. My point was that writting custom code it will be optimized and you don’t need to learn any system that might be perfect for your project. Since the 960.gs grid system I started to like them, and now I even wrote my own CSS framework. For almost all projects I use Wordpress as CMS,  Photoshop for graphics, and TexMate as text editor. Yes, I’m a Mac.