PSD to HTML

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

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.

I'd consider that content delivery rather than front end. I see web design as back end, content delivery, and front end. I believe it's a more modern web way of thinking, where AngularJS has gotten so prominent, everything on the server is backend and content-delivery and everything on the client is the front end. Basically, the new way to do things is provide a RESTful API and use JS+CSS+HTML for grabbing the data it needs and presenting it to the user.

Anymore, gone are the days of a script generating an HTML document with the contents filled into it. It's now about creating HTML templates with Handlebars placeholders and letting the client-side take care of everything.