What is Web Design?

Web Design is the creation of a web site or web page. Every web site is made up of one or more web pages or homepages. ... more

We've moved through a time when people and organizations had an almost indistinguishable face, to the world on the Web, to the "gold rush" time when differentiation and innovation (often in absence of a business model) were all-important. Today we understand that design, technology and business must all work seamlessly together to enable people to participate in activities and achieve their goals in a networked world. Do we need another book on Web design ten years after? If it's a cookbook on html, scripting, Web tools or design by bad example, the answer is no. What is Web Design? fulfills a need for the community as a compilation of issues, process and practice in design for connected interactive experience and sets the stage for the conversation about the effective integration of design with business and technology. Author Nico Macdonald writes from experience: as a respected journalist and consultant. The book invites interaction. It is divided and color-coded into three major sec ... more

Web design is used as a general term to describe any of the various tasks involved in creating a web page. More specifically, it refers to jobs focused on building the front-end of a web page. The web consists of myriad pages, presenting information using different technologies and linked together with hyperlinks. There are two basic aspects to any web page found on the Internet. The first is a presentation that the user interacts with, usually visually, while the second is a back-end that includes information for non-human browsers. The basic markup language used to tell a browser how to present information is called the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). A stricter version of HTML is also widely used, known as eXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML). Using HTML or XHTML, a web designer is able to tell a browser how a web page should appear. In the last few years there has been a push towards separating the underlying structure of a web-page (using HTML) from the visual presentati ... more

Loosely defined web design is the arrangement and creation of web pages that in turn make up a web site. There are many viewpoints on what makes up this process and due to growing development of the Internet this is constantly evolving. A website design is critical because it sells the potential of the internet site it represents. A second-rate web design page would repel most people from the site. This would eventually affect the Internet traffic the person or business website is hoping to gather. There are many dos and don'ts when it comes to web site designing. It is very important in web design that you keep in mind who you are trying to entertain with your site. If it is a youthful audience then you want upbeat backgrounds and colors and a more serious approach if it is aimed toward a more conservative group. The web design of most online sites is aimed to be user friendly and easy to surf. Websites that have a large amount of images or Flash can take longer than the average websi ... more

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity. Let’s repeat that, with emphasis: Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity. ... more

Web design is the process of physically creating a website. The graphics, the layout, the font formatting, all the little visual details that appear on the page. Almost anyone who can use a computer can design a website – for free. So why are there people making a living as web designers? Because not everyone wants to design their own website, they want someone with experience, who can make it look good and function well. ... more