About Web Designs

Web Designs

Web design is the process of developing presentations of information (most commonly 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 intent of Web design is to develop a website―a collection of electronic documents and applications that reside on a Web server/servers and present information and interactive features/interfaces to the end user in form of Web pages once requested.[citation needed] Such components as text, bit-mapped images (GIFs, JPEGs) and creates can be placed on the page using HTML/XHTML/XML tags. Displaying more complicated media (vector graphics, animations, videos, sounds) requires plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc. Plug-ins are also embedded into web page by using HTML/XHTML tags.

Improvements in browsers' compliance with W3C standards prompted a widespread acceptance and usage of XHTML/XML in concert with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to position and manipulate web page components and objects. Latest standards and proposals are targeted at leading to browsers' ability to deliver a wide range of information and accessibility choises to the client possibly without employing plug-ins.

Web Page Classifications

Classifications

Generally Web pages are classified as static or dynamic:

* Static pages don’t change information and layout with every request unless a human (web master/programmer) manually updates the page. A simple HTML page is an example of static information.

* Dynamic pages adapt their information 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 components (DHTML). Dynamic information is usually compiled on the server utilizing server-side scripting languages (Perl, PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, etc.). Both approaches are most commonly used in complicated applications.

With growing specialization in the IT field there is a strong tendency to draw a clear line between web design and Web development. Web design is a kind of graphic design intended for development and styling of objects of the Internet's information environment to provide them with high end consumer features and aesthetic qualities. The provided definition separates Web design from web programming, emphasizing the functional features of a web site, as well as positioning web design as a kind of graphic design.