Getting a Web Development Job For Dummies

Chapter 10

Tracing the Web Development Life Cycle

In This Chapter

How HTML, CSS, and JavaScript work together

Using CSS for text styling

Using CSS for positioning text and graphics

Designing web pages with WordPress

Using JavaScript in web pages

Web development has advanced hugely since its initial heyday in the late 1990s. At the time, there was a huge gold rush to stake out space in the online world — and in the minds of web users — for new business ideas. Pets.com, the Mining Company (now About.com), Facebook, oDesk (for freelancers), and AltaVista (once a famous search engine) were all big names, and all of them but Facebook are now defunct or rebranded or merged into some other company.

Now, you can spend an entire career in web development without ever actually starting a new website. A lot of the major players in the online world are already in place, so extending, expanding, improving, and updating existing sites can consume all the efforts of large web teams.

This can be ...