subject: Website Development, What Is It? [print this page] Website development can be used quite broadly to describe any activity regarding the creation and development of a website for the internet. This can relate to anything from web design, content development for the site, server configuration, even internet marketing. Many "professional" web developers only refer to the non graphical aspects of building internet web pages as web development.
The reason this can be such a loosely defined term is that when creating a web site you can make anything from a very simple static page with nothing but text to a supper complex web based application that can run your entire business online.
It can take hundreds of web developers and the corporate offices to create these websites or a twelve year old kid in his basement can do the same thing. There are many job titles in this industry, webmaster, graphic designer, and IT technician just to name a few.
Web site development has been around as an industry since the mid to early 90's and has become one of the fastest growing industries in the world. In 2005 there where over thirty thousand web site development companies in the united states, this is a huge increase from the stats in 1995 when there were less than a thousand web developers.
The great news is that this industry has an expected growth of over twenty per cent in the next year. This is due to the increasing number of businesses and consumers going online to do there shopping, add that to the dramatically decreasing cost of developing and owning a web site and you have a recipe for growth!
Instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars for a very basic site like in the nineties you can now spend under a thousand dollars and get a site that blows the old ones out of the water! And for a few thousand dollars you can now run your business online.
With the growth of the internet and many online office tools it has become increasingly easy for small web site development teams to break off and form their own companies. This competition is allowing prices to drop and companies to benefit from fast moving web development teams instead of stuffy behemoth companies.
So whether you are looking for a job in a growing industry or have been thinking about what you can do to help your business, website development is the way to go!
by: Gary Hall
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