Web Development: Frontend

Frontend; its known that a good user experience is key for a successful site, every site should be seen as an application, and its hard not to keep up with the trends in web development when everyday tools like google maps, gmail, twitter, facebook, or even commerce sites like Amazon and eBay do an excellent job combining all of the resources out there to make the web feel more “Natural” to users. Javascript has passed to be the key Scripting language that rules the net, from the old years when it was used to do simple things like a “Dynamic Menu”, to the killer effects we can achieve with the usage of the html DOM and CSS that help us render the content as the client envisions, I have worked with libraries like jQuery and Prototype to make sites more powerful and easy to use, as clients demand more power and uninterrupted user experience, this has become one of the primary goals of my work, I am proficient in the usage of xhtml markup and CSS to help the Artists involved in the project take their PSD files to life. The usage of libraries like jQuery is great for small and large projects, but the most important thing is to develop your own classes to handle your own events to create the results you expect. The Adobe Flash Player, is the plugin that changed the net, allowing us to break the mold and create stunning experiences, enabling Streaming and User-to-User connectivity, is the perfect companion to any site. Sometimes, it becomes hard to think of flash as a plug-in on the browser. I have worked with people that think Flash will solve all of their problems, but as powerful as it is, in my experience since the release of the Flash Player 6, and many of the tools in the most recent updates to the API, flash has become more of a surgical tool than a global solution, interaction between the flash player and the site that holds the object is very important as we have to remember what matters most is the user experience and delivering the content they it should. I have extensive knowledge of the majority of the Flash Player capabilities up to date, Event and Error handling, Streaming, Multimedia, Web Service consuming, connectivity with the Flash media server and the usage of the ExternalInterface which allows us to execute Javascript running on the browser and Javascript to Actionscript calls to send and receive Events, all of this to make the workflow of the Web App as perfect as possible.