What is Web Development?

Posted by Annamraju Designs on February 17th, 2020

Before we Enter into the web development process, let’s review a few web developments terms you might see throughout this piece.

Website

Websites are files stored on servers, which are computers that host websites. These servers are connected to a giant network called the internet or the World Wide Web.

Browsers are computer programs that load the websites via your internet connection, such as Google Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer. Your computer is also known as the client.

Internet Protocol (IP) Address

Internet Protocol is a set of standards that govern interaction on the internet.

To access a website, you need to know its IP address. An IP address is a unique string of numbers. Each device has an IP address to distinguish itself from the billions of websites and devices connected via the internet.

To find your device’s IP address, you can also type “what’s my IP address” into your search browser.

While you can access a website using its IP address, most internet users prefer to use domain names or by going through search engines.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Hypertext Transfer Protocol connects you and your website request to the remote server that houses all website data. It’s a set of rules (a protocol) that defines how messages should be sent over the internet. It allows you to jump between site pages and websites.

When you type a website into your web browser or search for something through a search engine, HTTP provides a framework so that the client (computer) and server can speak the same language when they make requests and responses to each other over the internet. It’s essentially the translator between you and the internet — it reads your website request, reads the code sent back from the server, and translates it for you in the form of a website.

Coding Language

Coding refers to writing code for servers and applications. It’s called a “language” because it’s comprised of vocabulary and grammatical rules for communicating with computers. They also include special commands, abbreviations, and punctuation that can only be read by devices and programs.

In a sense, developers are translators, too.

All software is written by at least one coding language, but they all vary based on platform, operating system, and style. There are many different types of coding languages … all of which fall into two categories (written by two different types of developers) — front-end and back-end.

Front-End

Front-end (or client-side) is the side of web development that you see and interact with as an internet user. When website information is transferred from a server to a browser, front-end coding languages allow the website to function without having to continually “communicate” with the internet.

Front-end code allows users like you and me to interact with a website and play videos, expand or minimize images, highlight text, and more. Annamraju Designs and Technology developers who work on front-end coding work on client-side development.

We’ll cover some front-end coding languages in the next section.

Back-End

Back-end (or server-side) is the side that you don’t see when you use the internet. It’s the digital infrastructure, and to non-developers, it looks like a bunch of numbers, letters, and symbols.

Annamraju Designs and Technologies Back-end developers work in systems like servers, operating systems, APIs, and databases and manage the code for security, content, and site structure.

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There are more back-end coding languages than front-end languages. That’s because of browsers — at the front-end — only understand JavaScript, but a server — at the back-end — can be configured to understand any language.