The following describes some of the more popular tools for web development:

• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language.
• Flash (also known as Adobe Flash, formerly Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages.
• PERL is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
• PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages.
• MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.