Web Design: What Does It Mean?
Web design encompasses a variety of disciplines and skills in website creation and maintenance. The various disciplines of web design include graphic web design; user interface (UI) design; content writing, which includes both standardized code and user-supplied code; technical support, which generally covers design, for example, database development and application integration; and search engine optimization (SEO). The use of multimedia (including video and animation), networking, and social media in web design is growing rapidly as users search for more interactive and engaging web pages. As social media becomes popular, designers are faced with issues like ethical web publishing and user choice, privacy and security, commercial and non-profit web applications. In addition to the discipline of web design, there are many spin-off disciplines that deal with aspects of web development. There are many schools and universities that offer courses in web design and many professio...