A web developer is a software developer or software engineer who is specifically engaged in the development of World Wide Web applications, or distributed network applications that are run over the HTTP protocol using an HTTP server, a web server, and an HTTP client, a web browser. Web developers can be webmasters who handle website management and web design as well as web application improvement or can basically be web application developers. Web developers are formally in charge of web development within their own organizations or also as freelance software developers.