Front End Web Developer / Taunton Press / Newtown, CT

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Taunton Press/Newtown, CTPublishing company seeks proactive front-end web developer with HTML/PHP/Drupal skills to join fast-paced interactive team. Selected candidate will have 3-4 yrs HTML/CSS/JS (very comfortable), 2 yrs Drupal theming experience, and up to 2 yrs experience/exposure to PHP5. Looking for a self starter who is deadline driven and possesses strong communication & organizational skills.

To apply, send resume and links to at least 3 production websites you've worked on, along with detailed description of your role in the development/production process.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with back-end developers, product managers and designers to implement pixel perfect front-end and user interface requirements.
• Interact with clients and/or other departments during the development cycle.
• Stay abreast of the new front-end web development technologies; integrate them with the company's web sites to further enhance the usability and efficiency of the sites as necessary.
• Work within tight deadlines while exhibiting exemplary time management and task prioritization.

Position Qualifications

• 3-4 years web development experience in a production environment
• 3-4 yrs HTML, CSS, Javascript. Applied knowledge of HTML5/CSS3
• 2 yrs Drupal 6 experience, including theme development (more info below)
• 1-2 yrs PHP (light, front-end)
• Excellent knowledge of Photoshop, slicing assets from PSDs and producing pixel-perfect HTML markup
• Familiarity with Browser quirks, cross-browser testing, alternate stylesheet
• Familiarity with general web development techniques/concepts: semantic markup, seo techniques, xml sitemaps, htaccess files, robots.txt, etc.
• Comfortable using source control tools (SVN)
• Familiarity with open-source PHP frameworks, (i.e. CodeIgniter/CakePHP)
• Familiarity with open sourse javascript libraries (JQuery, GMaps, SWFObject, etc) a plus
• Familiarity with MySQL (or other relational database) and/or basic SQL knowledge a plus
• Familiarity with OO PHP, and PHP5, a plus
• Passionate about web standards
• Ability to take a visual design document (psd's) and create a pixel perfect front-end web-based UI
• Must be self-motivated, organized and a team player
• Strong attention to detail

Drupal-specific skillset:
• General Drupal theme setup/config: regions, working with .tpl files and their naming conventions, Blocks, Menus, Building Taxonomies, Building Content-types in CCK, Installing/configuring contrib modules (pathauto, panels, views, admin menu, nodequeue).
• Experience creating custom Drupal themes from scratch (or using Zen base theme): includes slicing assets from PSDs, writing CSS, HTML, and light PHP programming in Drupal .tpl files.
• Build views for pages & blocks (using views module admin is fine) and theme them
• Customize nodes and/or pages using pre-process functions or straight tpl files (including menu, breadcrumb, user profile, tweaks for various content-types, etc.)
• Building panel pages via admin UI, theming them (panels module)
• Building views via admin UI, theming them (views module)
• Light jQuery (i.e. menu overlays, rollover interactions, etc.), light PHP
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