Skills for Front-End Developers

• HTML5 / XHTML
• CSS2.1 / CSS3
• JavaScript / Ajax
• jQuery
• HTML5 Boilerplate
• Modernizr
• YUI Library
• OOCSS
• CSS Grids
• CSS Frameworks / Resets
• Progressive Enhancement / Graceful Degradation
• HTML and CSS Specifications (W3C / WHATWG)
• UX / Usability
• Website Speed / Performance
• Debugging Tools (Firebug, etc)
• Dojo / MooTools / Prototype
• Responsive Web Design
• Mobile Web Development
• Mobile Web Performance
• Cross-Browser / Cross-Platform Development
• Document Object Model (DOM)
• Cross-Browser Bugs and Inconsistencies (primarily IE6-8)
• CSS Pre-Processors (LESS / Sass)
• Version Control (Git / GitHub / CVS / Subversion)
• HTML5 APIs (Canvas, Geolocation, Video, etc.)
• OOP
• Back-end Templating languages/technologies (PHP, Ruby, .NET, etc)
• MySql
• Accessibility
• WAI-ARIA
• Microdata / Microformats
• HTML5/CSS3 Polyfills
• CMS (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc)
• Functional Programming
• Data Formats (e.g. JSON, XML)
• Internationalization / Localization
• Content Strategy
• Offline Web Apps
• Regular Expressions
• Basic .htaccess
• SVG
• Image Editing Tools (Photoshop, Fireworks, etc.)
• Web Font Embedding / Licensing
• SEO Basics
• Haml
• CoffeeScript