| Conceived no earlier than the last decade, the | | | | needs of small enterprises and individuals. Another |
| website development industry is among the most | | | | factor that affected this industry is the proliferation |
| lucrative industries in the world. Website development | | | | of various website development tools and platforms |
| refers to the processes and activities involve in the | | | | that can be accessed online for free. The free |
| development of web sites. It includes e-commerce | | | | systems include Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Such |
| businesses, web content development, optimization | | | | factor also contributed the increasing number of |
| and web server configuration. It is the fastest | | | | people worldwide setting up there new Web sites |
| growing industry in the world. A decade ago, there | | | | daily. There has been a rise of user-friendly website |
| are but a number of website development | | | | development software particularly WebDev, Adobe |
| companies in the United States, now there are | | | | Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression. Such |
| thousands from every country/ continent. The | | | | software will enable people to set up websites in a |
| expected annual growth of this industry is more or | | | | matter of minutes. |
| less 20%. | | | | This will become more impressive and |
| Growth of this industry can be accounted to | | | | state-of-the-art in the future. Upcoming website |
| increasing demand and interest of large and small | | | | development tools will use LAMP and Microsoft.NET |
| businesses to effectively sell their products and | | | | technologies that will run applications faster and most |
| services to customers, as well as, to automate | | | | effectively. Such innovations will enable the web |
| business, thereby reducing avenue for human errors. | | | | developers to deliver applications and web services |
| In the desire of businesses to gain as much profit as | | | | that were traditionally reserved to the desk based |
| possible, they set up websites to better engage | | | | computers. |
| buyers to their products and services. Websites are | | | | Innovations in website development also brought |
| the quickest avenue to disseminate and gain | | | | about changes in communication and commerce. |
| information. Furthermore, website development | | | | There is a resurgence of e-commerce which refers |
| growth can also be attributed to the marked | | | | to the purchasing and selling of products using |
| decrease in the cost of web site development and | | | | electronic systems like the internet or other |
| hosting. From cost reaching to about several | | | | computer networks. and eBay have altered the |
| thousand US dollars, one can now develop websites | | | | manner in which consumers buy their goods. Another |
| for less than a thousand dollars, depending on its | | | | innovation brought about by website development is |
| features and complexity. Of course, the more | | | | the blog. Blog is the IN thing for individuals now. |
| application and features the more toilsome and more | | | | Blogging provides an avenue to express thought and |
| expensive. | | | | emotions. Web applications like wordpress have made |
| There has also been marked increase in smaller web | | | | blog-making quite easy. |
| site development companies that caters to the | | | | |