Web Design

Twenty years ago, the job title of Web Designer would not have meant much to many people, with the World Wide Web still waiting to catch on and become one of the major innovations of the twentieth century. To go with it, there were a whole load of terms that would be completely alien to the generations that came before it.

All in all, it means that web design could be seen as one of the more recent art forms and media operators to emerge in recent years, encompassing a whole range of tasks that range from the simple to the highly complex.

The twentieth century gave us many things, but no-one could have envisioned that as it ended, the most influential and world changing invention would be the internet, which has effectively brought everyone together, bringing countries closer to one another and ensuring that a whole array of tasks can now be achieved much more easily. Everyone has embraced the internet, and this is in their best interests.

It is the job of a web designer to design the websites that you visit every day. Their job can be compared to various others in various other fields, but the way in which it differs is through its complexity, for it requires the person to embrace a whole new language of coding to script the data that we take for granted. As with any form of design, web design begins with a plan and ends with a finished product after lot of work.

There are various ways in which a web designer might create a good website, from deciding whether it will be static or dynamic to planning a way to make the most of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). Static websites are the ones that remain still (as the name suggests), with the only changes appearing if an admin specifically makes said change. Dynamic sites, on the other hand, move around and might feature various flash movies and toolbars.

On top of that Search Engine Optimisation ensures that a website can be found easily through the use of search engines, with key words, tags and links used to increase the ranking of the site with the world famous search engine sites we use every day.

Web Design is a big process, but it creates the world we see on the net.