Web design Definition

Web design is the skill of designing

presentations of content (usually hypertext or hypermedia) that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients, microblogging clients and RSS readers.

The process of designing Web pages, Web sites, Web applications
or multimedia for the Web may utilize multiple disciplines, such as
animation, authoring, communication design, corporate identity, graphic
design, human-computer interaction, information architecture, interaction design, marketing, photography, search engine optimization and typography



Involved technologies may include (see Web development):

• Markup languages (such as XHTML and XML)
  
• Style sheet languages (such as CSS and XSL)
  
• Client-side scripting (such as JavaScript and VBScript)
  
• Server-side scripting (such as PHP and ASP)
  
• Database technologies (such as MySQL)
  
• Multimedia technologies (such as Flash and Silverlight)
  

Web pages and Web sites
can be static pages, or can be programmed to be dynamic pages that
automatically adapt content or visual appearance depending on a variety
of factors, such as input from the end-user, input from the Webmaster or
changes in the computing environment (such as the site's associated
database having been modified).

With growing specialization within
communication design and information technology fields, there is a
strong tendency to draw a clear line between web design specifically for web pages and web development for the overall logistics of all web-based services.
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