Web Development

Website development, in general, is the process of creating a website. It encompasses the entire process from the initial design stage to the final live website stage. It is sometimes narrowed down to only the coding element which includes all the PHP, HTML, Javascript, CSS, and database programming that goes into the project. And then it can be much more of a broad subject that also includes stages such as web business strategies before the initial design to marketing and advertising which is implemented after the site is live and public. I personally refer to it as somewhere in the middle. I almost never participate in the actual business part and keep the advertising separated. Advertising should be a separate product in my opinion.

There are several specific types of development like extension development used for creation or customization of extensions used with CMS systems like Joomla, Wordpress, or Drupal. Bug fixes are another aspect of web development. Many open source codes used to expedite functionality on web sites come 'out of the box' with bugs... sometimes quite a few. Custom Facebook pages and custom email newsletters are a little simpler, but could also fall into this realm.

There are many other types of development languages and structures associated with this like database development, Ruby on Rails, Ajax, , XML, Javascript, and the list goes on...

Hosting & Domain Registration

The first step to getting a web site off the ground (before having it developed) is to register a domain and purchase hosting. Godaddy is the worst choice you can make there... they have the world's slowest servers, the world's longest hold time for support, and their packages aren't expandable. If you run out of resources, you have to go to a VPN with no support that costs $100s per month. Godaddy is THE WORST.