Web Development: The People Involved

Web developers are engaged in building and maintenance of websites, and are primarily involved in coding and writing markups. Major responsibilities of web developers include software designing, creating data tables, data storage in database, retrieving data from database and presenting it on the webpage. A web developer can work on the client and server side, as well as oversee how the server-side frameworks interact with the database system and web server. Developers working on client and server side frameworks use technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, Python, CSS, PHP, .NET, and Perl among others.

Web developers may also provide web design services, graphic designing, search engine optimization and copywriting. Project management, quality assurance, web accessibility, and information architecture may be performed by a web developer. On the contrary, web developers may work in association with project managers, database administrators, web designers, software architects and graphic designers. Basic skills required by a web developer include ability to deal with cross-browser optimization, hand-coding HTML and optimization of web pages and graphics to facilitate faster loading. A small web development or web design company employs web developers as webmasters on contractual basis, or as information systems technicians or graphic designers. The functions of a web developer may coincide with that of a web designer as a website design contains intricately linked design and development components.

However, freely available programmed software for adding forums or message board to sites, are replacing the need for building and maintaining such applications by professional web designers and web developers.