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 mark up. 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.