What Is a Website?
Websites or network sites are a piece of code translated inside your browser to export some great visualization to give the user a special experience.
You are right now viewing a website that gives you information about things that you might never have knowledge about. A website can deliver clear ideas using a simple user interface(UI), valuable links, plain texts, rich media like photos and videos, VR & AR, audio files, and many other useful simplifications for different ages. As we all know, these days, a two-year-old child is holding a mobile phone and reaching the Internet easily, so websites should be customized even for them. Anyhow, adults and teenagers will not accept children’s content, but a website will change its style to fit the age of the user. All this is a simple definition of the website, but how can a web developer change the content once an adult or a child enters. It’s a kind of a complex process, but it will be easy once you get deep into it.
Front-End & Back-End Technologies
Those are the two main aspects of website development. A developer should understand both of them but not always master them. They should master one, whether front-end or back-end.
What Front-End Is?
Front-End development is everything a client (browser) can display. This includes texts, images, navigation bars, dropdown buttons, videos, etc. A Front-End developer should learn what a user interface (UI) means and how to design them, and what is the difference between UI and UX (User Experience). They all work to gather to form a stylish site that looks incredibly attractive. Every developer in this area should learn some skills and programming languages to reach such a great style. Those skills are just three main languages:
- HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language): which is defined as the main skeleton or any website worldwide. It’s the language responsible for viewing texts, photos, videos, tables, lists, and, of course, hyperlinks.
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets): after adding the HTML, you need to reorder them and give them a special style. Here CSS comes. It manages the fonts, colors, and shapes.
- Javascript: what comes after styling the whole site is activating the user interactivity. Here Javascript does its job as a programming language. It offers a variety of different UX options. You will feel that you are touching, clicking, moving, and changing the website or even much more.
- Other Extras: after using Javascript, you will have a complete website, but you can, moreover, add some value to your website by using other useful things like React, AJAX, Vue.js, AngularJS, jQuery, Bootstrap, SVG, Typescript, Three.js, D3.js, and many others.
What Back-End Is?
Back-End is the hidden process happening behind the scenes. Do you remember the example above of changing the site once a user enters? This happens because of the databases stored inside the servers. Once a user enters, something called “Sessions” activates and searches for past information a user applied. The most important data the server/session looks for is the signup information. Once he finds it, it gives the server instructions to display the best thing for the user. Even more, it can display your name and writes “Hello ….”, as Amazon was doing in the past. Some voice apps also did the same thing. Google Assistant usually says my name once I call it.
Developers in this area have to know the Front-End technologies (mentioned above) without the obligation to master them, and some extra programming languages, and, additionally, hard data storing systems. The main things they need to learn are:
- PHP/Python/ASP/Node.js/etc: as the main thing, developers need a high-level programming language that will allow them to control the entire process efficiently and effectively. Those mentioned above are the widely used languages, and I preferred PHP the most since it is nearly available in every host online (online hosts are the servers that accept the website in it and publish it to the Internet).
- MySQL/SQL Server/Oracle/etc: while programming, developers need a place to store the user data/information in a safe place, here databases come. Learning one of them will allow you to save, delete, copy or paste, add, and sort/order any of the data inserted by a user. I think that MySQL did the best for me because I am working on a server/host accepting it amazingly.
- No SQL Database: sometimes, you find difficulties using SQL databases on some servers. If you have learned any of the Non-SQL database languages, you will manage to have your job done easily. I used MongoDB once, but I had many challenges since I wasn’t, and actually still, not good at those database systems.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): in most sites, even this one, you may see a section down that says “Related Articles”, “Recommended Products”, and “Things You May Also Like”. Once you take a look at them, you find that they are really connected ideas to the ones in your mind. This is AI. Even big companies need them. Advertisements should be customized to fit the client, so they are always changing. You may see right now an ad that tells you about website development courses since they knew you are interested in them. There aren’t any specific programming languages or others things here. It’s all about how can you use Javascript and PHP.
Full-Stack Website Development
This is the most critical section. If someone told his interviewer at a job that he/she is a Full-Stack website developer, the interviewer will mostly feel that you are lying. Full-Stack developers are the ones who had the ability to learn both technologies mentioned above. They are able to build the entire website from scratch till the publishing moment. Expert developers used to say that a person can’t have the cake and eat it at the same time, if so, they can work with both sides while it’s impossible. The ones who believed this speech are now working with a limited world while some others, and I am one of them, didn’t listen and learned both. If you proved that you are capable to work with both, you may become the best one your company hired ever. Trust me, if you have a great willingness to code, study, and fight for it, you’ll absolutely manage to work with both and create your own site without depending on a colleague. This is just a personal experience and my opinion about what Full-Stack developers are while others have theirs.
Finally
In the end, We can now tell you that you are knowledgeable enough to learn more and start your journey in website development. I hope you remember me once you become a great adept developer. We are sure that anyone can achieve more than what he/she can imagine, but they need a small motivation to incite them to jump their biggest jump ever.
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