What is Web Designing And Development
If you are looking to design and build a website – whether you are doing it yourself or hiring an agency or developer to do it – you have then heard a term called “Web Development” which comes quite often. Knowing about the terms is fine but understanding them is vital, given you are serious about building your website. We do this during our “Meet” step of process with each customer, educating customer across this helps you build credibility and in-turn helps customer to pat on the back too. Let’s talk about what is Web Development…?
What is Web Development?
Web development is the process of developing Websites or WebPages which are to be hosted on the Internet or Intranet. Think through your favourite website; whether it’s an e-commerce store, blog, social network, online video streaming service, or any other type of Internet application, it all had to be built by a web developer.
But what does that look like? The web development process can be divided into four main components:
Web development is the process of developing Websites or WebPages which are to be hosted on the Internet or Intranet. Think through your favourite website; whether it’s an e-commerce store, blog, social network, online video streaming service, or any other type of Internet application, it all had to be built by a web developer.
But what does that look like? The web development process can be divided into four main components:
- Server-Side Coding.
- Client-Side Coding.
- Database Technology.
- Web Designing.
Server-Side Coding:
Server-side scripts are executed on the web server whenever a user requests a document or service. The server then produces the document, usually in the form of HTML, which can be read by the client’s browser.
The document sent to the browser may often contain client-side scripts. ASP.NET, PHP, Java, ColdFusion, Perl, Python, and Ruby are examples of languages used for server-side coding.
Client-Side Coding:
When you are viewing or using a website, you are known as ‘user’ or a ‘client.’ So web applications or computer programs executed by a user’s web browser are referred to as client-side scripts. That means the program requests any files it needs to run from the web server, and then runs within the client’s web browser.
This allows a Webpage to have unique content depending on user’s input or other variables. Ajax, Flash, JavaScript, jQuery, Microsoft Silverlight, HTML5, and CSS3 are some examples of popular languages, plugins and libraries used in client-side scripting.
This allows a Webpage to have unique content depending on user’s input or other variables. Ajax, Flash, JavaScript, jQuery, Microsoft Silverlight, HTML5, and CSS3 are some examples of popular languages, plugins and libraries used in client-side scripting.
Database Technology:
For any website to function on the Internet, it must be hosted within a database on a webserver. The database contains all the files required for a website and its applications to function. Websites typically use some form of a RDBMS; the leading RDBMS options are Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Apache, and IBM. Open-source RDBMS are also very popular, led by MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.
Web Designing:
Web design is a similar process of creation, with the intention of presenting the content on electronic web pages, which the end-users can access through the internet with the help of a web browser. Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design, interface design, authoring, including standardised code and proprietary software, user experience design and Search Engine Optimization.
And that’s it! You now have a solid understanding of the basics of web development.