Web Design

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What Does Web Design Mean?

Web design is a Web development process for creating a website that focuses on aesthetic factors like layout, user interface and other visual imagery in order to make the website more visually appealing and easy to use. Web design makes use of various programs and tools in order to achieve the intended look, such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop and many others. In order to create a winning design, Web designers need to think about their audience, the purpose of the website and the visual appeal of the design.

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Techopedia Explains Web Design

Most websites are created by using a coded language called Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In order for a website to be successfully displayed on the client browser, it needs to follow the rules of this language. HTML tags identify the website’s content for every page. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is then used to define the overall visual appearance of each page. The result is based on the combination of these elements. Hand coding can be taxing for some designers so some opt to use programs like Adobe Dreamweaver.

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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.