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==Web development activities==

Web development is a special form of [[Software development process|Software development]], a broad topic that is covered in [[:Category:Software development process|many Wikipedia articles]]. The principal activities of any software development process are [[software requirements analysis|requirements analysis]], [[software architecture|architecture and design]], [[software programming|programming]], [[software testing|testing]], and [[software deployment|deployment]]. Although a Web development process incorporates corresponding activities, the itprocess is best described by a slightly different set of categories. The principal Web development activities are:

#'''Requirements Analysis'''

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''I moved this section here from the current article on Web design, made some edits for readability, deleted the last half (see below for text) as POV and containing too much detail.'' [[User:ChrisLoosley|Chris Loosley]] 04:03, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

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When [[Netscape Navigator]] 4 dominated the [[Web browser]] market, the popular (but now [[deprecated]]) way to lay out a Web page was to use [[HTML table]]s. Often even simple designs for a page would require dozens of tables nested inside one another. Many [[web templates]] in [[Dreamweaver]] and other [[WYSIWYG]] editors still use this technique today. Navigator 4 didn't support [[Cascading Style Sheets]] (CSS) well, so it simply wasn't used. But after the [[browser wars]] were over, and [[Internet Explorer]] dominated the market, the practice of using of CSS to lay out pages grew steadily.

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[[XSLT]] can be used to translate data from XML format into HTML.

[[Database]]s are often used in conjunction with [[server-side]] [[scripting languages]] for persistent storage of [[Web content|content]]. [[Database management system]] like [[mySQL]] and [[postgreSQL]] offers convenient methods for accessing data stored within the databasen, to [[Update (SQL)|update]], [[Delete (SQL)|delete]], [[Insert (SQL)|insert into]] or [[Select (SQL)|search from]] the database. Most [[website]]s / [[web application]]s of non-trivial complexity uses some form of database to manage their content.

[[MySQL]] and [[PostgreSQL]] are popular free [[SQL]] databases, suitable for use with the above. They can be used to allow users, subject to password access if required, to update content.

=====Client-side=====

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Since the mid-1990's, Web development has been one of the fastest growing industries in the [[United States]]. In 1995 there were fewer than 1,000 Web development companies and in 2005 there are over 30,000 such companies.{{factTalkfact}} The Web development [[industry]] is expected to grow over 20% by 2010. The growth of this industry is being pushed by large businesses wishing to sell products and services to their customers and to [[automate]] business [[workflow]], as well as the growth of many small web design and development companies.

In addition, cost of Web site development and hosting has dropped dramatically during this time. Instead of costing tens of thousands of dollars, as was the case for early websites, one can now develop a simple web site for less than a thousand dollars, depending on the complexity and amount of content. {{factTalkfact}} Smaller Web site development companies are now able to make web design accessible to both smaller companies and individuals further fueling the growth of the web development industry.

==See also==

{{Wikibookspar|Wikibooks|Web Development}}

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