Web development is the process of taking finished web designs and transforming them into fully functioning, interactive websites. Development is what gives life and movement to the static designs, and enables users to access the website through their web browsers. This is done by translating the designs into web-coding languages that can be interpreted and displayed by web browsers.
Learning to code your own website is not in the scope of this textbook and requires years of practice and some considerable technical know-how. But we can teach you to understand the aspects that go into creating a website, the process that should be followed, and how to help in making key choices about your website.When developing a website, you need to make three key decisions (don’t worry,
we’ll explain each one below):
• Should your website be static or should it have a content management system (CMS)?
• Which server-side language should be used?
• Which front-end language should you use?
