Web development encompasses a wide range of activities. It includes any activity that contributes to the development of the World Wide Web. This ranges from e-commerce development, web design, server or client side scripting and development of web server and its configuring it. Web development can be as simple as writing documentation about a particular web product, and can also be as complex as writing codes for a web application.

In case of big organizations, they have a particular team dedicated to the web development of the organization. This not only means maintaining the organization site, but meeting the web and in general any need related to a network of computers. However, medium-scale organizations can hire a single web admin who can be responsible for the web development of the entire organization. The areas where the web development stresses upon are server and client side coding and maintaining proper and secure databases.