Web Design & Website Development

If we are talking about a website creation then what would be the main and standard steps for? Its - Initiation, analysis,web design, development or we can say content creation, testing and the final step is maintenance.

Website development is a process of programming or coding so it properly performs what the website owner would like to accomplish. Web development mainly uses for non-design aspects of building a website like writing coding and markup. This can include web content development , web server configuration , server-side or client-side scripting .We can say the range of Website development is starting from developing a simple static single page of plain text and it can go up to the most complex web-based internet application , social network services, E-Commerce solutions portal development etc.

In the big organization and business Web development team can consist of hundreds of web developer and a small organization may have only single requirement of contract based or permanent webmaster or they can have secondary requirement as an information system technician or graphic designer. As compare to the domain of a designated department web development can create a collaborative effort between departments.

We can talk over Web development as an industry .One of the fastest growing industries in the world is Web Developement.10-15 years back there were less than 1000 web development companies in United state only and if we will check for 2005-06 then that time the counting was around 30,000.According to statistics we can expect 20 % growth by 2010.

In market everyone weather small or large business wants to sell their products and services to customers and to automate business flow, this is the main reason and growth of this industry is being pushed by other business.

During this time the cost of website development and hosting has dropped. If you want to develop a simple website then the costing would be around less than $1000 depending upon amount of content and features. In previous days it was around tens of thousand of dollars and the main reason for this is smaller website development companies. Because these small website development companies can work for small amount also, they are able to make website accessible for both small companies and individual.

If we are talking about web development tools and platforms, there are many systems available for public free of cost to aid in development. The main and very famous example is the LAMP (Linux, Apache, My-SQL, PHP).Another main factor is - Its very easy to use these web development software, Adobe Dream weaver or language is not required, but its recommended for professional results.

The applications which were traditionally available on desk based computer only, now web developers help to deliver these application as web services. To create a new content users are interacting with online application as compare to running executable Microsoft FrontPage. Using there software anyone can develop a webpage in very less time and the knowledge of HTML ( Hyper Text Markup Language ) or other programming code on local computer. There are few new methods in communication created by them and it allowed many opportunity for decentralize information. Now users are able to interact with applications from many locations, instead of being tied to a specific workstation for their application environment. We have a good example of transformative communication led by web development is the blog. & Joomla , drupal , typo3 and  Xoops are some open source content system who have extended web development into new modes of communication and interaction.

During Web Development there are many security consideration takes into account, such as filtering output, data entry error checking through forms and encryption. Few things dependent on server environment mostly Apache, (like PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl and ASP scripting language is running on this server) so its not must to the web developer themselves to maintain.

When the users have primitive knowledge of web development as a whole that time malicious practices such as SQL injection can be executed by users with ill intent. When malicious users trying to collect information like password, email addresses, protected content such as credit cards no., that time scripts can be exploited to grant unauthorized access to that type of users. If we want to stop or avoid this type of exploit then we have to do stringent testing of web application before public release.

Server Port Hardening means to keep a web server safe from intrusion. When the information is transmitted to one location to another on internet, that time it should be safe. To prevent internet fraud SSL (Secure Socket Layer Encryption certificate are issued by certificate authorities. When the developers transmit and store sensitive information that time they often employ different forms of encryption. A basic understanding of information technology security concerns is often part of a web developer's knowledge.

It’s also the responsibility of web developer to discover new security concern and to keep application up to date as security patches are released. Because after testing and launch also, new security holes are found in web application.