WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

Website or Web development means creating, designing and maintaining a website. This website can be accessed and used by the online visitors for various reasons. In today’s rapidly changing digital era - developing a website is the most crucial step to build and grow your business/organisation. Additionally, it helps in creating virtual presence and brand identity for our company..

What distinguishes Web Development from Web Designing?

Web Development

• Web development focuses on how a website works.
• It includes coding and programming for the functioning of your website.
• Most web developers use HTML, JavaScript, Python, PHP etc. as the most preferred programming languages.
• It mostly requires technical skills like proficiency in programming languages.

Web Designing

• Web designing is for how the interface of your website looks like.
• It includes the website's layout, design, navigation, images, typography, graphics, colour coordination etc.
• Most web designers use Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, Canva for web designing.
• It involves creativity and comprehension of User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI).

What are the types of Web Development?

Generally, there are three types of Web Development: Frontend, Backend and Full-stack. Let’s know more about each of them:

Frontend Development

Frontend development refers to creating the user interface of a website or an application. It focuses on designing an engaging user interface including interactive elements and easy navigation. Frontend developer requires coding languages such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Frontend is also called ‘client side’.

Advantages Of Frontend Development

User Experience

A web developer/designer creates visually and aesthetically captivating interfaces. It is the job of the web developer to look out for easy navigation pathways in a website. Additionally, it plays a pivotal role in enhanced user experience via encouraging users to explore and engage with a website. It ensures the efficiency of your website on any device such as desktop or mobile. Around 90% of online shoppers trust brands that prioritizes user experience.

Low Cost And High Conversion Rates

Frontend development offers high conversion rates with low cost investment. Frontend development is inexpensive as compared to backend development. With a high quality user interface you will have higher conversion rates.

Faster Page Loading Speed

According to statistics, 40% of users leave a website that takes longer than 3 seconds to load. Loading of a webpage depends upon the size of files like images, videos and graphics. Optimizing these elements to appropriate size and dimensions reduces the loading time.

Scales Business

A well-developed frontend enhances your website’s interface and performance. Consequently, with a smooth-running and high functioning website, your website traffic will increase.

Backend Development

Backend development is building the server-side of a website. Server-side administers functioning of a website, receiving and managing user requests, data processing and user database. Dealing with the backends requires expertise in technical skills. Programming languages for backend development are PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript(Node.js), C# and Java.

Advantages of Backend Development

Scalability

Scalability is the measure of a system’s ability to maintain its efficiency along with increasing workload, users and userdata. Backends provide infrastructure for scalability of your business. If a website or an application lacks a scalable backend it will have issues in functioning.

Database

Data of a website is stored and retrieved at the backend only. Database operations include Creating, Reading,Updating and Deleting users data.

Security

Backend servers contain lots of data, thus securing all the data becomes necessary. Security measures such as data encryption, authentication, protection against threats and more are taken to safeguard website’s data.

Maintenance

Having independent frontend and backend makes it easier to make modifications in a system without affecting the other one. Moreover, it becomes easier to establish connections with third-party apps, APIs and databases.

Full-stack Development

Full-stack development is designing, coding, debugging and testing a website or an application. Basically, it is developing both the frontend (client side) and backend (server side).

What is CMS?

Content Management Systems are platforms that allow you to create, edit, manage and publish content. It is used in creating websites, publishing articles and blog posts. CMS are user-friendly for beginners and do not require much technical skills. It has SEO features such as URLs, meta titles, meta descriptions, keywords, tools for content and speed optimization that help in optimizing website content. Moreover, it is cost-effective as well as saves time and effort.

Open-Source CMS

Open Source CMS are free to use for everyone. Some of open-source content management systems are:

• Wordpress
• Joomla
• Drupal
• YPO3T
• CMS made simple

Closed-Source CMS

Closed source content management systems require some amount of money for creating, editing and maintaining content and their services. Examples of closed source content management systems are:

• Shopify
• Duda
• Squarespace
• Wix
• Adobe Experience Manager

Web Development Languages

Programming languages are the most essential aspect of web development. It is the basic requirement for your business to develop a functioning website or an application. There are various programming languages with their own uses, performance and complexities, let us know about some of them:

HTML

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language which is used for creating and editing web content (website and its pages). It is an easy to learn and beginner friendly language. It includes tags, attributes, data types, character types etc. HTML tags are in pairs as there is an opening and closing tab of each attribute.

CSS

In the first few versions of HTML, style information had to be added in the HTML programming. As HTML 4 was released, style sheets were introduced. Cascading sheet styles are used to style web documents in HTML or XML. It allows to separate content and presentation which helps with accessibility and control. It provides distinct layouts, styles, fonts, colours and backgrounds for web designing. It uses simple keywords to specify different properties.

Java

Java is a programming language commonly used for website, application, and software development on the backend. Jame Gosling developed it at Sun Microsystems in 1995. As reported by github, Java ranks as the third most popular programming language. Java is also used for game development and desktop softwares.

JavaScript

JavaScript is a programming language used in the frontend development or the server’s client side. It is a sophisticated language that was introduced in 1995. It enables interactive features on a webpage that users can interact with. Some of these features are dropdown menus, navigation slides, clicks, graphic effects, etc, that increase user engagement. With the help of Node.js, JavaScript can also be used for backend servers. Node js is a runtime environment that helps to use javascript in backend development. Moreover, JavaScript is supported by most of the browsers including Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Opera etc.

Python

Python is an object-oriented interpreted language that emphasises on readability. In python programming coding is done line by line which is interpreted and executed directly. It is also called batteries included language because of its extensive standard library.

C++

C++ is a high-level general programming language which was released in the year 1885. It is mainly used for creating fast applications which are used in video games, machine learning, robotics etc. It is a case sensitive language which has complex syntax therefore it is considered one of the most complex and challenging programming language.

SQL

Structured Query Language is used in database management systems of structured data introduced in the year 1774. It is a simple, beginner-friendly and easy to learn language. It contains different types of statements that can be categorized as Data Query Language (DQL), Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Control Language (DCL) and Data Manipulation Language (DML). DDL commands are for creating, modifying and deleting data from the database. DML is used to retrieve, insert, update and delete data. DQL is for querying data and DCL is for controlling and managing databases.

Website development Process

Planning

Planning before executing is the first step for developing a website. It is important to understand purpose, target audience, what your audience wants and what you will be providing to your audience. According to all these aspects a sitemap is planned for your website. A sitemap provides the structure of your website including webpages and their location.

Design and Prototype

Now it's time to design the website. Designing a website includes choosing colour scheme, fonts, typography, designs, backgrounds, menus and interactive features. Basically it is designing the user interface. A prototype is created for the website and is sent to the client for their approval. Further, modifications are made as per the clients requirements.

Web Development

After the prototype is approved, frontend developer codes and programmes user interface or the client-side as per the design. Subsequently, backend programming is done to create a well-functioning website. Backends connect databases and add logics.

Testing and Debugging

Testing and Analyzing is a necessary step to check the functioning and performance of a website. Developers look for errors or bugs and fix those errors for seamless and responsive performance of the website.

Launching and Maintenance

Lastly, the website is launched and is made accessible for people. You can check website insights and performance as well. A website has to be maintained timely with the upcoming updates to ensure it runs smoothly.

Web development and SEO

Website development is incomplete without SEO. Web development and SEO are closely related. An SEO-friendly website has a faster loading time and an engaging interface to optimize the website for visibility in search results. SEO works on keywords that are relevant and have a high search volume. Optimizing a website's content including headings, meta descriptions, meta titles etc is crucial. Reducing website speed, fixing broken links, and optimizing website structure is needed for crawling and indexing by search engines. Along with all this your website should be responsive for all devices (mobile, desktop etc) to ensure a smooth user experience.

Why should you choose EBS?

Creativity and skills

We have skilled experts who are committed to doing their work with creativity. Our developers have in-depth knowledge of technical skills and stay upto date with technology to provide you with the best.

Experience

Our professionals are highly experienced. And you would see our work reflecting in The Monsha’s salon at home website. We built their project from scratch and drove traffic on the website as well. With our expertise and tonnes of experience on web development and SEO services, we delivered our part of the bargain in less the time that was promised to them.

As Per Clients

We make customized plans and strategies as per the businesses. Every business is different and requires a plan that works to achieve their business goals. We discuss and understand our client’s needs and fulfilling their requirements is our priority.

Quality Work On Time

Our team puts tremendous efforts and is dedicated to provide top-notch service on time. We understand value of time and work with our full potential to offer our best to you. Punctuality and quality of our work ensures client satisfaction and trust.

FAQs

Question: What do you mean by APIs?

Answer: APIs stands for Application Programming interface. It allows two programs to establish a connection and share data.

Question: Which is the best programming language?

Answer: Every programming language has its own usability, performance and complexity. Some of the most common widely used languages are Python, Java, JavaScript and C++.

Question: Can web development be replaced by AI?

Answer: No, AI cannot replace web development as it requires certain skills, creativity and problem solving abilities. However, AI can help in increasing productivity and capability.

Question: What is web development with wordpress?

Answer: WordPress is a user-friendly tool that allows you to create and manage a website.

Question: What is debugging?

Answer: Debugging refers to identifying and fixing errors in a code.

Question: What is DNS?

Answer: Domain Name System translates human-readable domain names into IP addresses which are readable for computers.

Question: what are frameworks and libraries?

Answer: Frameworks and libraries are pre-built tools that helps in developing websites. Some of them are Django (for python web development), Angular (for frontend development), Spring (for Java applications) and more.

Question: Why is a website taking too long to load?

Answer: If a website is taking a while to load, it can be because of network issues, large files or increased website traffic.

Question: Where is website data stored?

Answer: Website data such as user information, transactional data, multimedia, structured data, user interaction data etc is stored in the backend servers.

Question: What is http and https?

Answer: Http (hypertext transfer protocol) and https (hypertext transfer protocol secure) are protocols used for transferring data over the internet.

Question: What is the difference between Java and JavaScript?

Answer: For developing applications Java is used whereas for developing website JavaScript is used.

Question: What is a full-stack developer?

Answer: A highly skilled developer that can create both the frontend and backend servers of a website.

Question: What do hosting services entail?

Answer: Hosting services allows individuals to host their website and securely store their information. Some of the hosting platforms are GoDaddy, DreamHost, SiteGround etc.

Question: What is a domain name?

Answer: A domain name is a unique name that is the address of a website on the internet.