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Web design is the process of making presentations of various kinds of contexts in the form hypertexts and hypermedia, for an end user. This put on a website with the use of a web browser or any other web enabled software, put on the World Wide Web.
Tim Berners-Lee was the first to ever publish a website on the internet through the use of hypertext. These websites were written in a language know as HTML. Websites may have all kinds of content that is text, audio, visual, symbols and graphics, etc.
In a very simplistic way of comprehending this, websites can be compared to the traditional print publishing. Only thing is that this process is much more complex, and requires a lot of training in the field of soft wares and HTML. To learn the process of designing a website, one needs to be able to first determine the purpose of the website and the audience who is going to receive or not receive this.
A web page is like any page of a book, but the difference is that web pages have its' content display in digital coding and displaying technology. As such the maker can make full use of this and put forth and publish their content in many different manners and formats. Of course web designing is becoming more and more, complex in making and sophisticated in its mode of communication.
On the note of who is going to be the audience and who are going to be the people wanting or needing to use the information on the website, the designer needs to be aware of the audience characteristics, preference of information, the kind of computer specifications, and the experience they want the users to get.
Depending on the market share of browsers, that is the targeted market, the freedom and interaction of the website with its users is also restricted.
Web designing being a more common form of ecommerce nowadays, the designers needs to determine the content, appearance, structure, usability and also versatility of the website, to bring about the maximum potential use of the website.
This has become a very professional field with high requirements, and targets. Websites can be easily coined as online content displayed and put forth to the users in many forms. It is increasingly becoming a popular profession with high competition, with thousands and thousands of websites developed every day.
