{"id":84,"date":"2019-03-21T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T22:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2019-01-21T23:58:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:58:22","slug":"the-evolution-of-modern-website-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/the-evolution-of-modern-website-development\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution Of Modern Website Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Technology has been advancing at blinding speeds over the last 2 decades especially when it revolves around communication and the internet. These advancements have resulted in the entire stratosphere of web development<\/a> to move along with it due to technological undercurrents that cause not just changes to the constructs of websites, but cause changes to almost everything around us as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New\nmethods and ideas are injected into the spectrum of web development\nalmost every single day and this has left those who knew how\nto code\nback in 2007, but failed to keep up with the changes rendered as\nnothing more than amateurs today. Back then, being able to use basic\ncoding and having a knack for some basic design was sufficient to\ndevelop a fairly good and functional website that would do well in\nattracting traffic simply via search engine rankings. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using\nthe same methodology used by developers even in 2010 today could\nrender your website useless or unsuccessful for the most part due to\nthe fact that designing and developing websites today requires new\nand essential skills that need to be layered on top of the web\ndevelopment fa\u00e7ade used 10 years ago. Integrating of everything in\nbetween is the best, if not the only way to build and run a\nsuccessful website that would serve the purpose of your business from\nevery possible aspect. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\narticle is intended to shed light on the drivers of change that moved\nthe mechanics of web development to where it is today. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Smartphone Era<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Slightly\nmore than a decade ago mobile phones were not what they are today\nbased on the fact that these phones were only capable of displaying\nor supporting very basic websites that were primarily static and\npresented text for the most part coupled with small images. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\n\u2018criterion\u2019 allowed web developers to largely ignore the Graphic\nUser Interface (GUI) of these devices as all the web developers were\nrequired to do was to just create \u2018primal\u2019 versions of these\nwebsites online mainly for those using \u2018high end\u2019 Nokia\u2019s of\nthe time or Blackberries. During this time, the Internet was\ndominated by PCs and laptops; however this is not the case any more. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\nSmartphones were introduced, it turned the tables of how everything\nworked over the internet as people increasingly started to use\nSmartphones to access the internet. Ignoring or failing to factor the\nrequirements of mobile devices into web development is not an option\nanymore. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Search Engine Optimisation <\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As\nthe web became a target for marketers and search engines took over\nthe reins from the Yellow Pages, returning relevant material related\nto searches became a critical success factor for these search engine\nmanagers. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This lead to the creation of search engine protocols otherwise known as SEO due to the fact that, a decade ago it was more than sufficient to \u2018stuff\u2019 irrelevant keywords to your web pages in order to drive traffic to a website, and this was easily manipulated by unethical developers who would stuff \u2018un-related\u2019 keywords just to get their website on page 1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nNoting\nthis abuse, algorithms were created that read and categorised pages\nand over time these algorithms become more and more complex to what\nthey are today. 10 years ago, there were \u2018no consequences\u2019 for\nstuffing or adding keywords randomly, these days, websites found to\nhave bad content, or the quality of the site is less than acceptable,\nsearch engines tend to flag them and sometimes even ban these sites\nentirely. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get a Professional and save yourself and your business a heap of trouble!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The\nabove reasons are only the tip of the iceberg, but enough to make the\ndifference between a successful website and a website that fails\naltogether. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From proper white-hat on-site and off-site SEO to mobile device requirement, from quality content and quality links and functional GUI, every single thing plays a role and thus, the only way to go about building a website that serves its purpose well is via a professional website developer<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Technology has been advancing at blinding speeds over the last 2 decades especially when it revolves around communication and the internet. These advancements have resulted in the entire stratosphere of web development to move along with it due to technological undercurrents that cause not just changes to the constructs of websites, but cause changes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-topics","category-general-web-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlineinvent.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}