Saturday, December 19, 2009

Intricacies and Procedures in Perfect Web Design

By J.D Theis

Web design is a professional job of creating a website that contains several electronic files with content presentation suitable for delivery to end users through the Internet or the World Wide Web. The delivery is achieved by using the services of a web browser or web-enabled special software such as RSS readers, micro blogging clients, Internet television clients, etc.

Web design involves several elements to be placed on the web pages in the website. These elements would be text, bit-map images of various types like GIF and JPEG, forms, and sometimes more complex media elements like videos, animations, sounds and graphics. These elements would be placed in the website using web design markup languages or tags such as HTML, XHTML, and XML, as well as plug-ins like Flash, Java run-time environment, Quick Time, etc. The plug-ins would also be embedded into the web pages using the above three web design tags.

Web design experts would create web pages either as static pages or dynamic pages. The static pages would have fixed content and layout and remain the same for every visit or request by an end user. Any updates to the page would have to be made manually by an experienced web programmer. On the other hand, dynamic pages would be able to adapt their page content and appearance based on the interaction or the input from the end user or according to the changes that occur in the computing environment like time, user, modifications in database, etc. Web design service providers achieve dynamic content by the use of scripting languages like PHP, Perl, ASP, Cold Fusion, JSP, etc. that work on the server side to compile the dynamic content on the server.

However, with more and more specialization in the IT field, the services of web design and web development are slowly getting separated with service providers concentrating mainly in one of the above two services.

As such, the modern web design service providers concentrate on the exact graphic design of the website to develop and style the objects provided as information to the Internet, so that they possess high class consumer-oriented features and unique aesthetic qualities. Hence, the professional web designers use multiple tools and disciplines like authoring, animation, graphic design, corporate identity, information architecture, search engine optimization, communication design, interaction design, etc. to achieve the best results. This would be possible only if the web design service providers have a professional outlook and clearly define the focus on the exact accomplishment of the website and the final output to the end-users.

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