Web design is the skill of creating presentations of content (usually hypertext or hypermedia) that is delivered to an end-user through the Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients, microblogging clients and RSS readers.
The intent of Web design is to create a Web site-a collection of electronic files that reside on a web server/servers and present content and interactive features/interfaces to the end user in form of Web pages once requested. Such elements as text and bit-mapped images (GIFs, JPEGs), forms can be placed on the page using HTML/XHTML/XML tags. Displaying more complex media (vector graphics, animations, videos, sounds) requires plug-ins such as Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc. Plug-ins are also embedded into Web page by using HTML/XHTML tags.
Web design is a form of graphic design intended for development and styling of objects of the Internet's information environment to provide them with high-end consumer features and aesthetic qualities. The process of designing Web pages, Web sites, Web applications or multimedia for the Web may utilize multiple disciplines, such as animation, authoring, communication design, corporate identity, graphic architecture, interaction design, marketing, photography, search engine optimization and typography.
Web sites can be static pages, or can be programmed to be dynamic pages that automatically adapt content or visual appearance depending on a variety of factors, such as input from the end-user, input from the Webmaster or changes in the computing environment.
Washington Graphic Services utilizes a variety of applications and tools to create dynamic and purposeful sites for all forms of business and personal uses.
· Markup languages (such as HTML, XHTML and XML)
· Style sheet languages (such as CSS and XSL)
· Client-side scripting (such as JavaScript)
· Server-side scripting (such as PHP and ASP)
· Database technologies (such as MySQL and PostgreSQL)
· Multimedia technologies (such as Flash and Silverlight)
· Content Management (such as Plone & Drupal)
· Development languages (such as Cold Fusion)
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