Brighton Web Design

Tim Berners-Lee published what is now considered to be the first website in August 1991. Berners-Lee was the first to combine Internet communication protocols (which had been carrying email and the Usenet for a considerable period of time) with a special language called hypertext (which had also been around for decades, but limited to browsing information stored on a single computer rather than over a network, such as interactive CD-ROM design). Now if I had invented the system I would have patented it - imagine the revenue that could be made. Websites nowadays are written in a markup language called HTML. HTML started off very basic  only giving a website's basic structure (headings and paragraphs), and the ability to link to other pages using hypertext. This was entirely new and different from the previous forms of communication - users could easily navigate to other pages on the same computer and more importantly on other connected computers by following hyperlinks from page to page.

As the Web and web design matured and progressed, the markup language changed to become more complex and flexible, giving the ability to add additional objects like images and tables to a page. Features like tables, which were originally intended to be used to display tabular information, were soon subverted by designers for use as invisible layout devices to improve the appearance of the page. With the advent of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), table-based layout is frequently regarded as outdated. Database integration technologies such as server-side scripting and design standards like W3C further changed, enhanced and improved the way the Web is made.
With the advancement of the Web, tens of thousands of web design companies have been established around the world to serve the growing demand for such work providing employment directly and indirectly to millions of people. As with much of the IT industry, many web design companies have been established in technology parks in the developing world as well as many Western design companies setting up offices in countries such as India, Poland ( I know a web programmer called Vladimir), Romania, and Russia to take advantage of the relatively lower labour rates found in such countries when compared to Western Europe.

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