PSD to HTML

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

I've always interpreted front end as client side.

Now would be a good time for you to correct that interpretation.

The term "front end" refers to the portion of a computer program or system which is facing the user. In this context, it's the part of the http server which provides the html (and images, and scripts, and stylesheets, etc.) to the web client. This is in contrast to the "back end", which is the part which deals with the file system, databases, security, business rules, intrusion detection, etc.

The client side of a web application communicates with the front end of the server side. They are not the same thing.