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Strictly speaking, website developers are responsible for back end of web development, that is to say the code behind a site’s functionality. They concern themselves with the mechanics of the site, while designers determine its arrangement, look and feel. If your business has its own site, it is essential that the foundations on which it’s built are free from glitches and running smoothly, especially if you are using it for e-commerce. A beautifully designed site is useless without solid development to back it up.
Areas covered by web developers include:
- Server side languages/frameworks
- Client side coding
- Browser plug-ins
- Application development
- Data storage and database management
- Content management
A “web development agency”, though, will often offer the complete website package (including development, design, search engine optimisation, hosting) and there can be a lot of overlap between the respective duties of developer and designer. Once your website has been created, a development company will usually provide support and maintenance.
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Latest Web Developer News
29 Apr 2008 – Yahoo! Announces “Open Strategy” to Web Developers
Web giant Yahoo! have announced a mammoth project to unite their various services into a single social network. The so-called “Open Strategy” is aimed not only at connecting Yahoo! users more easily, but also at allowing web developers to create “write once, run anywhere” applications that can be used by millions instantly.
The announcement was made at the San Francisco Web 2.0 Conference last Thursday. Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh was keen to emphasise that this was more than just another social network. Yahoo! vision is of a bigger platform – “We are building social into everything we do”, he explained. Yahoo currently boasts 500 million unique users and owns social sites including Flickr, Del.icio.us, and calendar site Upcoming.
Some have said that a development of this size is a move to ward off Microsoft, who made a $44.6 billion bid for the company back in February. Microsoft are now warning that they will push for a hostile takeover if their offer is refused or ignored.
Source: eBrandz.com
29 Apr 2008 - Sir Tim Berners-Lee Addresses Web Developers at WWW 2008 in Beijing
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the internet and director of the World Wide Web consortium, spoke to developers and dignitaries today about his hopes for the future of the web.
Berners-Lee said he expected the web to undergo a period of exponential change and development, and stressed the need to uphold standards of freedom and openness during its growth. He spoke optimistically of the internet as a universal tool for overcoming boundaries between communities worldwide.
He stated, though, that the web would only be able to fulfil this role with a greater level of data sharing. For Berners-Lee, Web 2.0 sites like social networks are “silos” for hoarding data, and he commented that “If we have to call anything ‘Web 3.0′, it will be when social pressure forces these sites to let go of your data.” This could result, he thought, in a two-tier web, with one set of websites storing and supplying data and another set giving users the tools to bring all the various pieces of data together. “Linked Open Data”, he stated, “is the Web done as it should be.”
Source: zdnet.com
