Increasing Complexity Of Web Development

With web application becoming the lifeline of business across the globe, business houses are seeking to expand their reach by providing robust and scalable web based solutions to their clients spread across geographies. As a result, the complexity of the application has increased many folds over past couple of years.

Web Design and Development is an art that requires a creative mind and a global taste with a lot of skills. The growth in complexity of web applications has brought in a renaissance of technology in this field. Different languages have emerged to build different portals , blogs , social websites, ecommerce websites etc. Gone are the times when a website used to be a business card of a company. Now a website plays the role of media on internet. Company can sell their product online , find clients, search raw materials n what not.

It all started in August 1991 when Tim Berners lee invented the WWW (world wide web ) and published a website. It was Html or the markup language which was used then and ruled the internet for the decade.Email Was also invented at that time which changed the way to communicate .Based on the same mark up language and use of different concepts of computer languages like OOPS (object Oriented Programming) of C++ ,C, Java new languages have surfaced like PHP, ASP,ASP.NET , VB.Net, Javascript, Ajax and many more. All these have brought a revolution in designing and development of websites.

With increasing complexity and wide reach of web application, Dynamic Website Development has assumed a very important role for organizations. However shorter development cycles and ever changing business dynamics do not permit time for Development and proper life cycle of such web portals. Hence clients are constantly looking to increase their Web coverage at the same time decreasing their overall Development cost. This attitude of client has brought in a change in working style of designers and developers. The methodology of web developers all over the world now is not Hard Work but Smart Work. Different tools like Dreamveawer , Photoshop , Corel Have made the work of designer Heaven and on the other hand CMS(client management systems) like joomla ,mambo Have made it easy for developers to give client a new height in OS Commerce Websites.

But Contradicting the technical growth is the growth of market. Very high Competition and Dynamically changing market trends have made the design and development more complex. A designer has to Follow the proper SDLC(System Development Life cycle )To successfully develop and maintain a Web application.SDLC consist of:

Feasibility Study
2. Analysis
3. Design
4. Development
5. Testing
6. Implementation
7. Maintenance


The Conclusion is That the growth of internet in itself has Brought in a increase in complexity of web development and design. This Complexity has been welcomed by designers and developers world over like my self and has been taken as a challenge .And we will win this challenge because we are the ones who create it.