About Website Design

Professional Quality Custom Design and Layout

Web Page Design: the process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form of technologies (i.e. markup languages) suitable for interpretation and display by a web browser or other web-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs).

The goal of web design is to create a website that presents content to the end user in the form of web pages when requested. Text, forms, and bit-mapped images (GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs) can be added to a page using HTML, XHTML, or XML tags. More complex media such as vector graphics, animations, videos, and sound usually require plug-ins (i.e. Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc.). Plug-ins are embedded into web pages by using HTML or XHTML tags.

XHTML and XML in conjunction with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are now being used to position and manipulate web page elements due to the improvements in the various browsers’ compliance with W3C standards. The latest standards and proposals aim at leading to the various browsers’ ability to deliver a wide variety of media and accessibility options to the client possibly without using plug-ins.

There are two types of web pages: Static and Dynamic

Static Web Pages

Must be manually updated by a webmaster or programmer otherwise the content and layout remains the same with every request.

Dynamic Web Pages

Dynamic web pages adapt their content and/or appearance depending on the end-user’s input or 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, media players and PDF reader plug-ins, etc.) to alter DOM elements (DHTML). Dynamic content is often compiled on the server utilizing server-side scripting languages (PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, Perl, Coldfusion, JSP, Python, etc.). Both approaches are usually used in complex web applications.

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