Web development refers to the building, creating and maintaining of websites that may be hosted over public internet or internal intranet. It includes web design, web publishing, web programming, and database management among other technical activities. It’s the work that happens behind the scenes to make a website look great, work fast and perform well with a seamless user experience.

In many cases, web development may not necessarily focus on a website’s design but rather is majorly concerned with the programming and coding part, which is the main reason for the functioning of the website. In fact, web development ranges from creating plain text pages to complex web-based applications, social network applications and e-business and e-commerce applications.

The web development hierarchy therefore is as follows:

• Client-side coding.
• Server-side coding.
• Database technology

Since the commercialization of the internet, web development has been a growing industry. The growth of this industry is being driven by businesses wishing to use their web site to advertise and sell products and services to customers.

An ever-growing set of tools and technologies have helped developers build more dynamic and interactive web sites. Further, web developers now help to deliver applications as web services which were earlier only available as applications on a desktop computer. This has allowed for many opportunities to decentralize information and media distribution. Examples can be seen with the rise of cloud services such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. These web services allow users to interact with applications from many locations, instead of being tied to a specific workstation for their application environment.