Web Design and Development: Everything You Need To Know

In this article, we shine a light on everything you should know about web design and development.

An Introduction to Web Design & Development

If you own a business, you need a website. This is your online shop window to sell your products or services to your target audience. But where do you start?

With a small business, perhaps you simply need a couple of pages of content including your contact details. However, with a larger business, especially one that includes e-commerce, you need an expert in web development.

Many people aren’t aware of just how much goes on behind the scenes with building a website.

The user or client hopefully sees a well-made, clear website which is easy to navigate and use. If it includes buying a product, they will take the quickest and easiest route to buy it. They can see the website on any device in a responsive format and everything they click on is easy to do.

However, it’s easy to use and look at thanks to all the work that takes place by the web developer. Or in the case of a larger website, the web development team.

Web development is the structure behind building and developing a fantastic and responsive website for your business.

It can start from a single static page to a comprehensive list of applications and social network services. Hence web development can include engineering, design, content development, client liaison, scripting, security and e-commerce development. Which still doesn’t cover everything.

Generally speaking, it refers to the main non-design aspects of building websites, such as coding. Furthermore, web developers can design content management systems (CMS) to enable clients to change the content themselves and use basic technical skills.

The Importance Of Web Development

For very large organisations, web development teams can be made up of hundreds of people.

An ever growing set of tools and technologies means that developers can build even more dynamic and interactive websites.

For example, online retailers such as Amazon and auction sites like eBay have changed the way consumers find and buy goods.

The web development teams behind those websites are making the user journey easy to enable consumers to buy as quickly as possible. Thus increasing sales. Also, the design is key in attracting consumers to use the websites repeatedly.

Furthermore blogs are changing the way people communicate and write about their own experiences.

An excellent blog can raise interest in your business and provide users with valuable content. This is all part of the clients experience when they visit your website.

Additionally, the rise in cloud services such as dropbox and google drive means that users can now interact with applications from many locations.

For example, you no longer need to work on or visit a website from a single workstation. A good responsive website is accessible from any device and any location.