Web development is also known as website development. It refers to the building, creating, and maintaining of websites and web applications. It includes various aspects such as web design, web publishing, web programming, and database management.
It could apply to the creation of a single plain-text webpage or developing a complex web application.
It includes all development tasks, such as server and network security configuration, server-side scripting, client-side scription, web markup and coding.
Web development is also a rapidly expanding industry owing to the upward-rising trend of global internet users.