Website Development

Web development refers to non-design aspects of building web site, essentially anything from the underlying code to web-based software applications that may drive the many different electronic media or client or server side coding and or social networks like chat rooms etc.

In smaller organizations a web developer might well refer to a single person who might well be responsible for the planning, design and development of any underlying code or coding of web-based applications, project management, copywriting, QA and IT, whereas in larger organizations web developers may well be part of a team which combine their efforts with other departments such as design, marketing, affiliate marketing and IT.

However there is a more broader use of the term amongst companies that refer to themselves as web developers are often referring to the various services, perhaps an offering that includes all aspects of the conceptualization, planning, wire-framing, design, search engine optimization, deployment, search engine marketing and other marketing services such as pay-per-click, viral marketing or simply paid advertising campaigns external to the internet.

Because of the massive increase in the number of businesses requiring web development, deployment and/or re-deployment the cost involved in launching an internet presence has dropped dramatically since that of mid nineties, combined with the collaboration of human resources offer by the way of open-source the cost of deploying a web presence can be as little as a few thousand dollars. Variations of open-source collaborative efforts are content management systems (CMS) such as Joomla, WordPress, Typo3 and Drupal.