Orange County, California is a growing business hub that provides employment for thousands of professionals and one of the biggest areas of work in Orange County is web development. Beginning in the mid-1990s, web development has been one of the largest expanding industries in the country. In 1995 there were less than 1,000 web development firms in the United States, but by 2005 there were over 30,000 such firms.

The web development industry is expected to expand over 20% by 2010. The growth of this industry is being assisted by large businesses looking to sell products and services to their customers and to automate business demands, as well as the expantion of many small web design and development companies.

So what is web development? Web development is a general term for any functions related to developing a web site for the World Wide Web or an intranet.

This can include e-commerce business development, web design, web content development, client-side/server-side coding, and web server configuration. However, among web professionals, "web development" usually alludes to only to the non-design elements of building web sites, e.g. writing markup and coding. Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complicated web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, or social network services.

For more complex businesses and organizations, web development groups may consist of hundreds of people (web developers). Smaller businesses may only require a single full-time or contracting webmaster, or secondary assignment to similar job positions such as a graphic designer and/or Information systems technician. Web development may be a collaborative task between departments as opposed to the focus of a single department.