Website Development Industry

Conceived no earlier than the last decade, the website development industry is among the most lucrative industries in the world. Website development refers to the processes and activities involve in the development of web sites. Website development includes e-commerce businesses, web content development, optimization and web server configuration. Website development is the fastest growing industry in the world. A decade ago, there are but a number of website development companies in the United States, now there are thousands from every country/ continent. The expected annual growth of this industry is more or less 20%.

Growth of the website development industry can be accounted to increasing demand and interest of large and small businesses to effectively sell their products and services to customers, as well as, to automate business, thereby reducing avenue for human errors. In the desire of businesses to gain as much profit as possible, they set up websites to better engage buyers to their products and services. Websites are the quickest avenue to disseminate and gain information. Furthermore, website development growth can also be attributed to the marked decrease in the cost of web site development and hosting. From cost reaching to about several thousand US dollars, one can now develop websites for less than a thousand dollars, depending on its features and complexity. Of course, the more application and features the more toilsome and more expensive.

There has also been marked increase in smaller web site development companies that caters to the needs of small enterprises and individuals. Another factor that affected the website development industry is the proliferation of various website development tools and platforms that can be accessed online for free. The free systems include Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Such factor also contributed the increasing number of people worldwide setting up there new Web sites daily. There has been a rise of user-friendly website development software particularly WebDev, Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression. Such software will enable people to set up websites in a matter of minutes.

Website development will become more impressive and state-of-the-art in the future. Upcoming website development tools will use LAMP and Microsoft.NET technologies that will run applications faster and most effectively. Such innovations will enable the web developers to deliver applications and web services that were traditionally reserved to the desk based computers.

Innovations in website development also brought about changes in communication and commerce. There is a resurgence of e-commerce which refers to the purchasing and selling of products using electronic systems like the internet or other computer networks. Amazon.com and eBay have altered the manner in which consumers buy their goods. Another innovation brought about by website development is the blog. Blog is the IN thing for individuals now. Blogging provides an avenue to express thought and emotions. Web applications like wordpress have made blog-making quite easy.

By: Kath Panambo

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Don Varner www.WebsiteDevelopment.org