Website Development at a Crossroads

Creating a website to be available for viewing on the internet is a creative process involving several disciplines combined together to create one coherent presentation.  In the broadest sense web design can refer to all the various aspects of a websites structure and functioning, including, web design, content, client relations, scripting, web server and network security. However web development, when discussed among professionals, almost always means, the main aspects of building a web site aside from the actual design, which includes, writing markup and coding. These elements contribute to the most humble, one page, static, plain text site all the way to complicated web-based application for the internet, electronic businesses and even social network services.

Large businesses might employ hundreds of people in their web development departments, while more modest organizations may only need one person as the ‘webmaster’ or might even outsource the responsibility to an outside contractor. However it is done there is no question that web development is a main aspect of almost every business today.