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Top 6 Website Development Technologies

When it comes to the website development process, it involves multiple steps. And in almost every step, developers leverage various cutting-edge technologies to create a fully functional website for your business. So, if you are planning to develop a website for your business, you should be aware of these technologies. Take a look.

  1. HTML

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It’s a basic language for website development and offers a complete base structure for a website page. Coding done with this language ensures that the website is formatted in a proper way. Even a browser needs HTML to display images, texts, and other elements of your website.

The advanced version of HTML is HTML5 which defines the number of App Programming Interfaces, which you can use with JavaScript to create a dynamic and fully interactive website for your business.

  1. CSS

Cascading Style Sheets, also known as CSS in the shorter format, play a crucial role in determining the aesthetics, and style of any website page. Developers leverage this technology for structuring a website page, which includes various factors be it fonts, layouts, element positioning, color, etc. In nutshell, HTML defines the beauty of your website.

  1. Programming Languages

Programming languages serve their ultimate purpose of communicating with computers and also instructing them on what they need to do. It offers a complete set of grammatical rules and vocabulary for instructing the computer to perform a particular function.

Developers get several programming languages to choose from. They select the right programming language based on the needs of your website development goals. Some of the popular programming languages for website development are PHP, JavaScript, Python, Java, Rust, and others.

  1. Website Development Frameworks

Well, frameworks are popular tools for website development that help developers code in a specific language easily. The actual reason why developers leverage frameworks is they make development work easy and highly efficient. With this, developers generally get the largest pool of coding resources while performing development work.

Website development frameworks prevent developers from creating a website from scratch. This way it makes the development work cost-effective compared to writing entirely new code. Besides, it also minimizes your development risk as they are almost similar to writing a new code.

Developers leverage many popular languages such as Angular, Node.js, and many others for coding varieties of websites.

  1. Libraries

Libraries have their importance in website development services. These are a set of collections of various routines, programs, scripts, functions, etc. These are something that developers integrate into code writing. Libraries generally work through the grouping of snippets of coding together.

When compared with frameworks, libraries are completely different. The framework generally structures and defines your website. As far as libraries are concerned, these are crucial resources that you can integrate freely into your build while giving your design and structure. Developers leverage libraries to create more specific functions, features, etc. of a website. Some popular libraries are React.js, Vue.js, FacebookSDK, and many others.

  1. Databases

Database, as the name suggests, stores all crucial data. Meanwhile, they are just digital filing haphazard digital filing cabinets. They offer a fully organized and consistent structure for data storage and also retrieving a vast amount of data.

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