Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, and social network services. A more comprehensive list of tasks to which web development commonly refers, may include web design, web content development, client liaison, client-side/server-side scripting, web server and network security configuration, and e-commerce development. Among web professionals, "web development" usually refers to the main non-design aspects of building web sites: writing markup and coding.
"Wozu neue Bilder und neue Ideen? Was kaufen wir uns dafür? Wir haben schon zu viel alte, die uns nicht freuen, die uns Erziehung und Mode aufgedrängt haben.
Franz Marc, Almanach »Der Blaue Reiter«, 1912