This document introduces web development by defining the web and browsers. It explains that the web is an information space accessed via URLs and the internet using a browser. Browsers display and interact with web information. The document then summarizes the client-server model where servers create and return HTML data to clients via browsers. It provides overviews of HTML, the markup language used for web pages, and CSS, which describes how HTML elements are displayed. Finally, it distinguishes between static websites that are difficult to update versus dynamic websites that are easier to update and collaborate on but more expensive to develop.
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