Web DevelopmentSunshine Coast

Web Development refers to building/creating, updating, and maintaining websites and web applications. Web Development includes everything from the client side (what the user sees) and server-side (computer language that interacts with databases, lets users log in and much more). It also includes things like web design, content development and sometimes scripting.

Our hourly web development rate is $150+GST. The cost of your project will depend on the size of scope.

Good developers are drawn to languages they find interesting or challenging. There are plenty of good programmers out there who vastly prefer Python over PHP, Java over C#, etc.

So it's hard to gauge which language is best for web development, but obviously, the more choice you have, the better since many factors can affect what language suits an individual developer best.

A web developer should have skills in multiple areas, including monitoring performance, functionality, speed, design, content and campaigns.

Monitoring your website's performance is an important part of being a web developer. The goal is to make sure the site works well for all users. To do this, our developers test baseline usage in terms of page load time, or we crawl through it ourselves with different browsers on different networks & devices at different points in the day. Web developers also test new scripts when they're added by viewing them in popular testing tools like BrowserStack, PageSpeed Insights, and WebPageTest.

Web developers typically fall into three categories: Front-End Developers, Back-End Developers and Full-Stack Developers. A developer that specialises in building websites from the front or back end of a website is known as a Front End Developer or Back End Developer respectively. Full Stack Developers are one of the most technical positions because they're not just proficient in both front and back end, but also know how to deal with all aspects of programming and software engineering.

Web Design is the process of creating a web page's concepts, layout, look, interactivity and its place on the Internet - including the evolution of each one over time. Web Development is programming computer code using languages like HTML, CSS and JavaScript to take the design from a concept to a web page that browsers can read. You'll need both Web Design and Web Development for any credible website - however, they may work in tandem or independently for various circumstances. Your Web Designer would work on concepts of your site, including layout, colours, styles/fonts, etc., while your Developer would focus on coding the layouts brought up by designers.

For most projects, we estimate a need for 1-3 people on a full website build. So, an answer to this question can change based on all the context around it.

A small project would require 1 or 2 developers with knowledge of HTML and CSS, as well as JavaScript skills, to get interactive elements going.

This is assuming that there are no complicated integrations or security requirements - which will add more complexity and time to the project, making it ultimately bump up the number of developers required by a whole team.

For larger projects with many different sections, it's good practice to have at least two developers involved in quality assurance at any time - or even full-time if your project is large enough.

An API, or application programming interface, is a set of rules and specifications that dictate how one program communicates with another. For example, Facebook has an API that dictates the number of times a user can make posts in a given timeframe, as well as what kind of posts are counted as spam posts. In general, it would be wise to use an API for tasks such as building apps and transferring data between applications. There are three types of APIs: REST, SOAP, and RPC.