Web Design Understanding

 Web design is the process of designing a web site. Web design is a combination of processes like conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution. We can say these are the phases of the web design. Web design is a graphical way to deliver content via internet in combination with Web browser under stable language such as HTML. The objective of web design is to create a web site, a collection of pages that reside on a web servers and present content and interactive features to the end user in form of Web pages.

Web design is made from different elements like text, bitmap images, forms can be placed on the page using HTML/XHTML/XML tags. Now days Web design combines with more complex media such as animations, videos, sounds which requires plug-ins such as Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment.

Web design can be classified as static or dynamic.

Static page content doesn't change on every request unless not edited by human.

Dynamic page content depending on the user's input. So with the help of dynamic page we can make our website interactive.

Good Features of Web Design

Text

Text should be good enough to read.

An image doesn't interrupt Text.  

Page loading Time

Size of page should not be exceeding more the 100KB so pages can download quickly.

Navigation Structure

Navigation is clear and in hierarchy manner so user can easily navigate website.

Graphics

Site should not be too much graphics heavy. This will increase site download time.

Links

Link colors should coordinate with page colors

Links are underlined so they are instantly clear to the visitor

Browser independent

Website must be browser independent. It looks same in any browser.

User friendliness

Web design should be user friendly so user can easily navigate through whole website.

Search engine friendliness

WebDesigns should be search engine friendly so it can be optimized for high search engine rankings.

Types of website design

Content Sites

Custom website design

E-Commerce website design

Community website design

Educational and reference sites

Corporate and government website design

Search and web portals website design