Web Development: Fundamentals You Need to Know	1.0/5.0 (3 votes total) Rate: Select 1 - Terrible 2 - Poor 3 - Average 4 - Good 5 - Outstanding
Deepak Sharma July 26, 2006

If you've regularly browsed the World Wide Web and paused to think about how you could stake your claim on the Internet, this essay might help. Tons of people wonder where they can begin to tap into all the potential. The Internet is an unbelievably great way of sharing info and it's possible for you to use a portion of the internet and make it yours. Web development is the major topic of this article..

Do most people know that web development describes all areas of creating a web site for the Internet? This covers Web design (graphic design, XHTML, CSS, usability and semantics), programming, server administration, content management, marketing, testing and deployment. This term can also be used to refer to the "back end", that is, programming and server administration. A good number of websites need more than one person working on the develomental end to get things functional..

Numerous people respond negatively to a website that is poorly put together, and don't even bother finding out whether the information is any good. The way it looks is very fundamental and extensive thought should be put into being sure your users will interact with the content. Doesn't it also make sense that for more complex sites, a detailed development plan should be laid out and followed?

Taking some useful hints from software quality aspects can apply to the development of sites as well. They are described in terms of development for web sites:

Reliability:Do problems allow for the system to keep running? Is the website reliable?

Robustness: What does the website do when faced with incorrect input?
Performance: Does the web page respond quickly to the user's inputs? How efficient is it in processing requests and inputs?

Usability: Is the website simple to navigate and understand?

Maintainability: How hard is it to change the website? Can new functionality be added?

Portability: What software requirements does the website require? Will this restrict the number of possible users?

Understandability: How well do you understand the website you've developed?

If you keep these quality aspects in your imagination as your are designing your site, it will help you make quality pages. How to choose the way to host your website is half of the problem, the other half is to create a website that people would want to visit and come back to. Don't you think that the knowlede of producing a great site will help you get the most out of your experience? It is so important to have a handle on web development.