What are the basics of Web Development?

Web development is often used synonymously with web designing. But technically, they are completely different and require a unique skill set.

Web designing Vs Web Development

Web Design:

• The process where the visual aspects of a website are defined. Web designing encompass defining of website interface, structure, typography, page layout, and other web features.
• A good web design emphasizes in balancing all these web elements.

Web Development:

• Web development involves the creation of a functional website from the design provided.
• Comprehensive web development process involves,
• i. Client-Side Scripting
  • JavaScript is the client-script language, where the client-scripts are interpreted by browsers.
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Flash, and Microsoft Silverlight, are some of the client-side languages.
• ii. Server-Side Scripting
  • Server-side scripting is performed for connecting to the databases that reside on the web browser.
  • C, Java, ASP.NET, Python, and Ruby are some of the server-side languages.
• iii. Database Technology
  • The website is operated smoothly through database technology.
  • Most popular database technologies are MongoDB, IBM DB2, MySQL, Apache, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL server.

What is a Script?

It is a sequence of instructions within a file that is executed without being compiled.

So, what are the possible tools that are required for developing a website?

Of course, it is the programming languages and frameworks.

How does a Web Work?

Key Web Development Technologies

• HTML
  • Short for hypertext markup language, HTML is used for designing the basic structure of a web page. In simple words, HTML is the basic programming language for developing a web page.
  • .htm & .html are the file extensions of HTML programming language.
  • Each component of a webpage is defined through HTML tags. A tag can be defined as a non-hierarchical term and comes in a pair, open tag and closed tag. Also referred as ‘elements’, HTML tags are the means for a browser to render the web content.
  • What can you do? Or Benefits?
  • Add headings, create special characters, insert images, control line breaks, build tables, and well you can do a lot more.
• CSS
  • Cascading style sheets (CSS) add life to the dull basic structure of the website, which is created through HTML.
  • HTML = Create Content/document
  • CSS = Presentation of that document/content
  • The Effect of CSS on HTML
  • – What CSS actually includes?
  • i. A Set of Properties
    • A CSS property defines how the characteristics of an element should be defined on the web browser.
    • Background color, width, and other display features are defined through CSS properties.
  • ii. A Selector
    • Through a selector, elements can be selected for which the property values will be updated.
  • – How CSS is applied to HTML
  • Inline: Affects the element that has been selected.
  • Internal/Embedded: Affects elements of a single file.
  • External: (Unlimited) Number of files that are linked will be affected.
  • – Introduction to DOM
    • DOM abbreviated as document object model is an application programming interface for HTML and XML documents.
    • What is the role of DOM?
    • Once a document (HTML & CSS) is created, the DOM allows programming languages to access this document for further manipulation through JavaScript language.
• JavaScript (JS for Short)
  • JavaScript, a dynamic scripting language runs on the client-side/web browser. JavaScript is used for making web pages more interactive to every modern web browser.
  • What does JavaScript actually do?
  • It adds dynamic functionality to the HTML document. Fluctuating layouts, responsive button clicks, well, JavaScript extends the functionality of the websites by utilizing the DOM model.