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 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...

Prepare yourself for a tale of triumph, tragedy, and the unyieldi ng power of a properly placed button. Gather 'round, digital denizens, and listen to the saga of... The Tragic Tale of "Barry's Bargain Bin" and the  Button of Destiny Once upon a time, in the vast, scrolling expanse of the internet, there was a website so well-intentioned, so full of potential, and so utterly, soul-crushingly terrible, that it made Geocities pages look like the Sistine Chapel. This was the domain of Barry, a man who sold artisanal, hand-knitted socks for parrots. A noble cause, you might think. And it was! Parrots' feet get chilly! But Barry’s website, "Barry's Bargain Bin," was a digital monument to chaos. The color scheme was a violent clash of lime green and neon orange, chosen because they were his parrot, Captain Squawk's, "favorite colors." The homepage featured a spinning, pixelated GIF of a parrot wearing a tiny sock, which, and I cannot stress t...