What is a web design?
Web design encompasses many different
skills and disciplines in the
production and maintenance of
websites. The different areas
of web design include web graphic
design; interface design; authoring,
including standardised code and
proprietary software; user experience
design; and search engine optimization.
Often many individuals will work
in teams covering different aspects
of the design process, although
some designers will cover them
all. The term web design is normally
used to describe the design process
relating to the front-end (client
side) design of a website including
writing markup. Web design partially
overlaps web engineering in the
broader scope of web development.
Web designers are expected to
have an awareness of usability
and if their role involves creating
markup then they are also expected
to be up to date with web accessibility
guidelines.*
