Web Design – a quick look

Web design has become a very competitive business . Any person with basic knowledge of a computer can design a website. Many different software packages make it easy, even for the unexperienced to design a website.  Anyone can now create or design a good looking website. 

However, to design a proper website that will be attractive to your client and also include the necessary functions such as database applications, search engine optimized pages, etc, is not always  easy.

Because of the tough competition  and the millions of websites accumulating on the cyber space daily, web design has become a competitive game.

Web design can be seen as a planned  and creative process of electronic media and content , compiled in such a way that it becomes meaningful  when published  to a server where it can be accessed by  information  seekers. Web design is also a tool used  to create a website or web pages to present  the products or services of a business  on the Internet.

Web design is aimed to create  web pages and websites in such a manner that it is suitable for interpretation and can easily be displayed by a web browser.

Web design can be effectively used to attract clients or customers to your website and web pages.

Web design can be seen as an art or skill when properly applied.

Website design involves not only graphic design skills but  also includes other Internet and  IT technology skills.

The  ability to navigate easily through a website is definitely obtained by lots  of experience and skill.

Web design is not only a skill but  can also be a full-time  profession. Web designers should therefore  know their field.   Many fly by night “web designers” cause a lot of damage to the web design industry. Potential customers  are getting the wrong idea  of web designers  and see the whole industry in a  negative light.

Most websites are designed with static pages but also includes dynamic pages with interactive facilities. When  a  website is designed with dynamic pages, it allows the user or owner thereof to easily update these pages.

 A website is therefore not only a collection of information about a particular topic or subject, but rather a combination of professional web design , IT, database, Internet and other business skills like marketing and accounting knowledge. 

Proper web design can be the one big factor  attracting customers to your business.  A fine balance between a good looking website, functionality and professional search engine optimization is probably the secret of  the success of many succesful websites.

 The first page of a website is known as the Home page or Index page.  A splash page is sometimes used to serve as an introductory page of a website when focus needs  to be placed on a specific product or service.  Web designers will typically design a home page or splash page in such a way that it will draw attention to specific areas, but also in a way that the rest of the website’s pages can easily be reached.

Navigation menus are normally used in web design to visit other pages which are linked to each other in a specific website.

 Each web page within a web site is a file which has its own address, better known as the URL. These pages can be of various formats like HTML, PHP, or other document formats.

The website is  the final product of web design and  is the result of the combined skills of more than one person.  The project is  then  managed by the webmaster or project leader.  The webmaster will combine the different skills of graphic designers, database experts, marketing specialists and other to compile the final website before it is published to a server on the Internet.

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