DEV Community: Oswaldo Jesús Marín Pagés

Resizing of Roles in IT

Oswaldo Jesús Marín Pagés — Fri, 27 May 2022 03:41:04 +0000

In the world of computer technology we see how developers and other computer professionals strive every day to achieve their roadmap. This long career implies a series of knowledge, resources, as well as the management of a series of skills and abilities required for a certain and specific role.

However, every day what is known as “Role Oversizing” is also observed, that is, a tendency to cover more elements in a specific field than should normally occur.

Such is the case of Frontend Developers who intend to take them to the level of Backend or Fullstack Developers or web designers whose role is strictly that of design and who do not have to know anything about web pages.

It is worrying when in the case of Junior Developers they try to impose technologies that correspond to Senior Developers but the pay continues as developers who are just starting out in programming.

Although this situation suits many companies that seek to demand more and pay less, it is a situation that threatens quality and service, which must correspond to a clear separation of roles and responsibilities and is necessary to delimit each area in IT development.

Web Designer vs Web Developer

Oswaldo Jesús Marín Pagés — Tue, 24 May 2022 22:06:18 +0000

Many times the roles of a Web Designer and a Web Developer are often confused when this is focused on Frontend Development. Although these roles are very similar for organizations, each one has its particularities.

A Web Designer only designs in the strictest sense of the word. He doesn’t need any other tools besides HTML, CSS, SASS/LESS and CSS Frameworks and of course an intuitive sense of creativity as well.

The Web Designer works with the image of a website, its spaces, the shape of the elements that make up a website according to the concept that you want to manage for the client. All this is what makes up the Digital Identity of a website.

However, the Web Designer does not need to know programming languages such as Javascript or PHP, or generate functions or solve problems. In a strict sense he manages the image of a website through design. That’s all.

On the other hand, it is important to define very well the role of a web developer when he focuses on frontend development.

Once you have the design. The Frontend developer can build this website following the template of the web designer.

The Web Developer can use tools in common with the Web Designer such as HTML, CSS, SASS/LESS, and CSS Frameworks, among which are:
Bootstrap, Pure and Bulma.

However, the Frontend Developer differs from the web designer in building or generating functions, requiring the use of programming languages such as Javascript or PHP for the use of animations, banners and modals that require a dynamic and not static website.

Many times the Front End Developer must solve problems and conflicts and generate solutions depending on the interests and needs of the services required by the client.
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What is HTML? My Vision as a Web Developer.

Oswaldo Jesús Marín Pagés — Tue, 17 May 2022 02:25:57 +0000

Many in the world of information technology know HTML by its acronym: Hyper Text Markup Language to declare it as a language based on the use of tags to define a web document what systems and applications on the Word Wide Web are made of but really What does a web document mean for us developers?

The web has changed and this has brought with it changes in the structure of a web document, which means that the importance is focused on the management of the content of a website and towards the audience to which such content is directed. To this we must add the emergence of a series of elements, programming languages, CSS frameworks to generate a user experience and user interface in accordance with the need to address such information content that is devoured en masse through the Internet.

Hence, content management has become so important that the technologies and development applied to each web document are essential to present the visual way in which the content will be approached by millions of users around the world. Which brings us to the great responsibility of ensuring that we build a useful and reliable website for this great world digital library.

Today we developers ask ourselves in which language for the web should I program? maybe PHP or maybe Javascript or what CSS framework to use or what web template will be the most appropriate but the greatest responsibility should always aim to build a responsible content web that as a development community we are obliged to build with each step that we take. give us through our digital participation on the web.

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