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Front-end Developer (IT) - South AfricaJob SummaryFront-end DeveloperLocation: PretoriaSalary: Market RelatedOur client provides analytical insight of physical and online behavior, combining the real time flow of visits to your venue and their website interaction.Front-end developer creates the environment for everything that users see and touch: content, layout, and interaction. The front-end developer creates interaction and user experience embedded in a site. Everything a visitor sees, clicks, or uses to input or retrieve information is the work of the front-end developer who creates client-side software that brings the design to life.Front-end developers are the bridge between the designer and the back-end programmer, which means they have to be both creative and tech-savvy.Requirements:Focus is on user experience, and the technology they implement will hinge on how well it accomplishes that speed, efficiency, and smooth functionality.o Tailoring user experienceo Bring designer concept to life with HTML, CSS, and JavaScripto Production, modification, and maintenance of websites and web application user interfaceso Implementing responsive design for mobile siteso Contributing some back-end experience, collaborating on APIs, and moreo Maintaining software workflow management with a project management tool - Subversiono Consult on SEO best practiceso Testing the site during development for usability and fixing any bugsLANGUAGESo JavaScript: With its frameworks and libraries, it's the core of front-end development, and beyond. It was the first client-side language and is still the most ubiquitous client-side script on the web.o jQuery: jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTMLo PHP: PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Pre-processor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTMLo PHP MYSQL: For database querieso HTML5: HTML dictates a site's organization and content, all interaction aside, so it's something every front-end developer needs to know. HTML elements can annotate footers, headers, how text displays, how media and images appear, and more.o CSS3: The latest standard for cascading style sheets (CSS), CSS3 is broken into modules and comprises the code for every graphic element-from backgrounds to font-that make up the look and feel of a website.o Bootstrap 3: Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile-first web sites.o AJAX: JavaScript + XML, it allows specific parts of a site to be updated without a full-page refresh by asynchronously connecting to the database and pulling XML-based chunks of datao REST API: A RESTful API is an application program interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE dataFRAMEWORKSo For quick development with libraries of pre-packaged, shareable code and software add-ons.o Codeigniter or AngularJS: This framework, or several other JS frameworkso jQuery: A fast, small, JS object library, it streamlines how JavaScript behaves across different browsers.o Bootstrap: This leading mobile-first framework blends HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to facilitate rapid responsive app development. With Bootstrap, your site is compatibleo Node.js and Python experience would be a plusSend your CV and latest pay slip to cathy@aaaa.co.za

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