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What is Web Design?
By Eddie Hauser,
on Wednesday 14 May 2008 08:18:03 AM
Today I would like to talk about what exactly is web design? If you want to get technical about it, Web design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media delivery via Internet in the form of Markup language suitable for interpretation by Web browser and display as Graphical user interface (GUI).The term web design actually differs from the term website design. A graphic artist will develop a web design into a website, which is a collection of electronic files that reside on a web server, or several servers and present the content and interative features of the website back to the end user in teh form of a web page.
The recent improvements in the browsers' (internet explorer, firefox, safari) compliance with W3c standards prompted a widespread acceptance and usage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to position and manipulate web page elements and objects. Latest standards and proposals aim at leading to browsers' ability to deliver a wide variety of media and accessibility options to the client possibly without employing plug-ins.
There are typically two classifications for a web page, static or dynamic.
Static web pages don’t change content and layout with every request unless a human (web master/programmer) manually updates the website page.
Dynamic web pages adapt their content and/or appearance depending on end-user’s input/interaction or changes in the computing environment (user, time, database modifications, etc.) Content can be changed on the client side (end-user's computer) by using client-side scripting languages (JavaScript, JScript, Actionscript, etc.) to alter DOM elements (DHTML). Dynamic content is often compiled on the server utilizing server-side scripting languages (Perl, PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, etc.). Both approaches are usually used in complex applications.
With growing specialization in the information technology field there is a strong tendency to draw a clear line between web design and web development.
Speaking of clear, wasn't that informative? This is only the beginning...there will surely be more of my rambling that will keep you on the edge of your seat, so get the coffee ready, it's going to be a long night.
