The Basics of Web Designing- An Overview for a Layman
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012The trick behind building a good looking website is skillful web designing that is based on HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language. Before we delve deep into HTML we have to understand what exactly is web designing.
Web Design Explained.
Web designers start from scratch with a concept in mind. According to the theme and concept planning is done to decide the color, font and visual scheme of the website. To make it look all the more attractive images and interactive elements are incorporated along with digital media. The aim is to give every website a unique look. Content is King-so text forms a crucial part of web design. Last but not the least is the process to make it visible in the web browsers.
Brick by brick the web designers build up the site. They use HTML for structure development and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for presentation and Java Script to add interactivity to the website. All these make the site seen all across the world of web.
Writing Code is the Foundation of a Website
Web designing involves a practice that is all about writing code in valid HTML and CSS, which are the basic technologies employed for web design. CSS make it easy to correct any kind o problems and make page editing easy. Cascading Style Sheets is an innovative technology; what it does is to separate presentation style documents from content of documents. With CSS you can make stylistic and aesthetic style changes to an entire website at one go; you are saved from the hassle of changing pages one by one. In the process, site maintenance and web authoring becomes an easy job.
The crux is HTML should be used for raw content and CSS to manipulate the same in its aesthetic perspective.
What is HTML?
As already stated HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language which is used y web designers to create a site. XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) was just a simple reformulation of HTML standard but it went out of context because it was not accepted and comprehended by the web designers. The new HTMl5 is the current version which also supports XML serialization.
Website Changes are Necessary
Periodically it is essential that website content and look gets a new look and feel. In the initial days, after a site goes live, only minor changes might be required. But there are times when major changes need to be incorporated. In some instances, websites are designed on a platform called CMS or Content Management System, which allows even a novice to edit and make changes (this process is called ‘Visual Edits’).
To sum up, website designing is not just a creative pursuit it also involves the very significant website monitoring and site maintenance.









