Web development is all about working on the technical aspects of a website. In a broad term Web development involves developing websites. Web development mainly includes web designs and web content development. This involves both web developer as well as web designer. A person in charge of the visual design and layout of the website is called as web designer, and the web developer is the person who takes that design and vision from a static design to a fully working website that is online and available to the world.

For building a basic website it is important to have knowledge of following mentioned languages:

HTML / HTML5 − HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the most basic building block of a webpage and used for creating and visually representing a webpage.

HTML and HTML5 Markup language is used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web.

HTML and HTML5 is a simple language for creating documents that adhere to structured outlines. It consists of plain English words which in programming term is known as tags, also known as HTML elements. For e.g. below are the few Html tags.


<h1>Headline</h1>
<h2>Subhead</h2>
<p>Paragraph.</p>
<p>Second paragraph.</p>
<p>Third paragraph.</p>
<h3>Subordinate subhead</h3>
<p>Paragraph.</p>
<p>Second paragraph.</p>
<p>Third paragraph.</p>
<address>Contact information, copyright, date of publication</address>

For more refer W3Schools HTML tutorial

CSS – Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a web pages. CSS is used to define styles for your documents, including the design, layout and variations in display for different devices and screen sizes. For more click here.

 

JavaScript – JavaScript is a programming language designed to work specifically in web browsers, in programming term also known as web scripting language. It brings life to a websites by providing dynamic page effects and user interactivity functionality, whether responding to clicks of the mouse, hovering motions, and other user activities or a simple alert message.

E.g. of a simple alert message

<script>
function myFunction() {
alert("I am an alert box!");
}
</script>

For more refer W3Schools JavaScript tutorial here

Though JavaScript is powerful and complex, it is relatively easy to learn, it is also lightweight. JavaScript is the answer to today’s top JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as jQuery, AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackBoneJS, Sencha ExtJS, etc.

 

Summary

HTML and CSS are the basic building blocks of pages on the web. Every website always includes HTML and CSS, but as you move forward from there, you may want your website to be more functional and interactive then scripting language like JavaScript comes into picture.

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