Web Design Orange County - A Brief History of Web Development

Web development continues to expand as one of the most rapidly growing businesses in Orange County. A relatively new industry, web development has exponentially grown since its inception less than twenty years ago. With so many new web development firms setting up shop in Orange County, there are a lot of questions about this new industry, such as its history. Here’s some background on the genesis of web development:

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, published a website in August 1991. Berners-Lee was the first to combine Internet communication (which had been carrying email and the Usenet for decades) with hypertext (which had also been around for decades, but limited to browsing information stored on a single computer, such as interactive CD-ROM design). Websites are written in a markup language called HTML, and early versions of HTML were very basic, only giving websites basic structure (headings and paragraphs), and the ability to link using hypertext. This was new and different from existing forms of communication - users could easily navigate to other pages by following hyperlinks from page to page.

As the Web and web design progressed, the markup language changed to become more complex and flexible, giving the ability to add objects like images and tables to a page. Features like tables, which were originally intended to be used to display tabular information, were soon subverted for use as invisible layout devices. With the advent of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), table-based layout is increasingly regarded as outdated. Database integration technologies such as server-side scripting and design standards like CSS further changed and enhanced the way the Web is made. As times change websites are changing inside (scripts) and out (design) because of the way programs and utilities are created and further developed.

With the progression of the Web, thousands of web design companies have been established both in Orange County and around the world to serve the growing demand for such work.

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