WEB DESIGN
Web design is the design of web pages, websites and web
applications using HTML, CSS and images.
Web design is part of starting a website (web development)
which can include web server configuration, writing web
applications and server security.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web
published a website in August 1991, making him also the
first web designer. His first was to use hypertext with an
existing e-mail link. Early on, websites were written in
basic HTML, a markup language giving websites basic
structure (headings and paragraphs), and the ability to
link using hypertext. This was new and different to
existing forms of communication - users could easily open
other pages. As the Web and web design progressed, the
markup language used to make it, known as Hypertext Mark-up
Language or HTML, became more complex and flexible. Things
like tables, which could be used to display tabular
information, were soon subverted for use as invisible
layout devices. With the advent of Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS), table based layout is increasingly regarded as
outdated. Database integration technologies such as
server-side scripting and design standards like CSS further
changed and enhanced the way the Web is made. The
introduction of Macromedia Flash into an already
interactivity-ready scene has further changed the face of
the Web, giving new power to designers and media creators,
and offering new interactivity features to users. A
relatively new technique called Remote Scripting has
allowed more dynamic use of the web without the use of
Flash or other specialized plug-ins.
A website is a collection of information about a particular
topic or subject. Designing a website is defined as the
arrangement and creation of web pages that in turn make up
a website.
A web page consists of information for which the website is
developed. On a different perspective, a webpage can be
compared to a page in a book and a website is to a book.
So, these are the main aspects involved in web design.
Moving to the each in detail, the web page consists of text
and images. It can also be said as that a web page is
similar to a file which has all the data. To support the
data or information the images are added to the web page.
To be more technical the first page of a website is known
as Home Page. Each and every page in a website is a HTML
file which has its own web address. Web design involves
some aspects or points to be remembered which will take the
website to the people. Content should be organized,
informative and easy to understand for the people to visit
the site again and again. Last but not least, the website
should display clearly and neatly the purpose for which it
has been created. For a professional or business website
the visitor or a client should not be distracted or
disturbed by any aspect in the web design and should be
able to navigate easily within the site. For educational
websites the appearance and organization must provide a
pleasant environment for learning new things.
fonte: www.wikipedia.org
