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Web development is the process of developing a web site for the World Wide Web or Internet. This includes e-commerce, web design, web content development and web server configuration. However, now a days among web professionals, "web development" usually refers to the non-design aspects of building web sites, Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based Internet applications.

For larger organizations, web development teams can consist of close to hundreds of people who are called web developers. Smaller organizations may only require a single permanent or contracting web developer. They are also called as graphic designers in few organizations.

Web Development tools:

There are many available tools to help make web development projects quicker and productive. There are a lot of tools that can greatly increase development speed, reduce debugging and testing time, and improve quality of the output. The tools described below are a variety of utilities, aimed towards helping developers create websites more efficiently.

CSS Grid Builder:

CSS Grid Builder is an online GUI for customizing the YUI Grids CSS – This allows you to rapidly generate a CSS-based, web-standards compliant page layout in a matter minutes or seconds. Once you have got the page layout all you have to do is press "Show Code" and it generates the HTML for you. The generated code links to the appropriate style sheet found on Yahoo!’s Developer Network API.

Firebug:

Firebug is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for debugging scripts. It includes three main features: a console which lists errors and allows you to execute any arbitrary JavaScript code; a debugger which shows you all of the JavaScript source with errors highlighted; and an inspector which allows you to navigate the page's DOM. This is a part of Firefox add on.

HTML Validator:

The HTML Validator extension uses a local HTML validation tool to validate every page you visit. This can help you conveniently identify errors in the. Version 0.7.x uses a local install of HTML Tidy as its backend. HTML is a part of Firefox add on.

Extension:

Web Developer extension is very handy and timesaving. You can rapidly validate your XHTML and find JavaScript/CSS errors, change XHTML on-the-fly, inspect HTTP headers information, and much more.

Internet explorer add on – Developer Tool bar: The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar, developed by Microsoft, is the closest thing you'll get to Firefox's Web Developer.

Ajax – Simple Ajax Toolkit:

This is an open source framework developed to speed up the creation of Ajax applications.

CSS Editor:

A page style sheets can be edited through CSS editor. It also provides some context information about the style sheets.

JavaScript Code Improver:

JavaScript Code Improver is a simple tool that allows you to quickly tidy up and format your JavaScript. Web developers can standardize javaScript codes with the help of this.

Some of the other tools include:

Google Web tool Kit, CSS Fly, Appjet and Google sitemap Generator.

Companies like Cincinnati Web Design provide consulting services for web developers.  Cincinnati Web Design is based around the process of information architecture.

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Ibm, Microsoft, Eclipse And Adobe Vie For Ide Glory At India's Premier Software Developer Awards

Bangalore, March 8, 2010: Integrated Development Environments have come a long way since the days of punch card and paper tape entries. IDEs of today are designed to harness a programmer's maximum productivity potential by providing highly integrated source code editors, compilers, automation tools and debuggers amongst other tightly interweaved components. This trend percolated into all types of programming -- from enterprise application development all the way through embedded development. The key driving force behind this trend was the ever increasing size of the application code.

The need to accelerate time-to-market through automation and the requirement to facilitate training and increase a developer's productivity also aided in this transformation. This gave rise to the near ubiquitous availability and use of products like Microsoft Visual Studio for Windows application development and the Open Source Eclipse environment for Linux and other platform development. Another popular feature built into the advanced IDEs of today is collaborative development support, fostering code sharing among development team members.

As code size and complexity increases, each of these tasks (and others) becomes more arduous, especially when using only command-line tools. While numerous tools exist to integrate and accelerate the steps above (build scripts and make files, for example), the dominant paradigm today streamlines development by integrating the edit/compile/debug cycle (and other steps) through a point-and-click graphical user interface — an Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

In line with global trends, the democratic Great Indian Developer Awards Season III shortlist votes (see pie diagram representation below from a sum total of 1,16,700 votes that were received in the shortlist stage) indicate that almost 100 percent of all Microsoft Windows application development occurs in Visual Studio and related IDEs. The majority of Java applications development is IDE-based, thanks to tools from IBM, Symantec, Borland, and others. Most modern Web programming development leverages IDEs especially on the Adobe Flash and Flex builder platforms. In the embedded world, systems and firmware developers still prefer command-line interfaces, especially for embedded Linux development. IDEs are however, preferred for SoC code development in conjunction with verification and co-design paradigms. (Voting is open from http://www.developersummit.com/gida3_llist)

Embedded applications-code developers, like their enterprise counterparts, tend to leverage IDEs. Linux and other Open Source developers still prefer CLI tools, probably from a decade of CLI-focused history and, until the introduction of Eclipse, because of a fragmented IDE landscape. Tools and OS vendors like to market IDEs because they provide an attractive demonstration vehicle and a more palpable, visible asset for licensing than do CLIs. Managers like IDEs better than line developers, probably because IDEs offer a neat vision of their team's development process; line engineers like CLIs because they afford more control.

Saltmarch Media's annual Great Indian Developer Awards honors software products across 12 categories, based on their productivity, innovation excellence, universal usefulness, simplicity, functionality and most importantly on the ground feedback from India's software developer ecosystem. In the Development Environment Category, the final shortlist consists of IBM's Rational Application Developer; Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010; Adobe's Flex Builder; Popular open-source IDE – Eclipse and Microsoft's Expression Studio. Oracle's JBuilder was the first IDE to win this award in 2008 followed by Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 in the 2009 chapter of the same awards.

If there is a particular development environment that you personally endorse to your colleagues or you evangelize about them at the first opportunity you get, here is your chance to vote for it (voting closes April 10 2010) and see it win this prestigious award. Who knows? You could win along with it too. At the end of the voting process, a lucky draw will be conducted and one person will receive a surprise gift from our prize sponsor. So visit the 2010 Great Indian Developer Awards website and cast your vote. It counts! (http://www.developersummit.com/gida3_llist)

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