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Website Design & Devlopment.
Web page design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution
of electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form of technologies (such
as markup languages) suitable for interpretation and display by a web browser or
other web-based graphical user interfaces (GUI). The intent of web design is to
create a web site (a collection of Dynamic or Static electronic files residing
on one or more web servers) that presents content (including interactive features
or interfaces) to the end user in the form of web pages once requested. Such elements
as text, forms, and bit-mapped images (GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs) can be placed on the page
using HTML, XHTML, or XML tags. Displaying more complex media (vector graphics,
animations, videos, sounds) usually requires plug-ins such as Flash, QuickTime,
Java run-time environment, etc. Plug-ins are also embedded into web pages by using
HTML or XHTML tags. Improvements in the various browsers' compliance with W3C standards
prompted a widespread acceptance of XHTML and XML in conjunction with Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS) to position and manipulate web page elements. The latest standards
and proposals aim at leading to the various browsers' ability to deliver a wide
variety of media and accessibility options to the client possibly without employing
plug-ins. Typically web pages are classified as static or dynamic. Static pages
don’t change content and layout with every request unless a human (web master or
programmer) manually updates the page. Dynamic pages adapt their content and/or
appearance depending on the end-user’s input or interaction or changes in the computing
environment (user, time, database modifications, etc.) Content can be changed on
the client side (end-user's computer) by using client-side scripting languages (JavaScript,
JScript, Actionscript, media players and PDF reader plug-ins, etc.) to alter DOM
elements (DHTML). Dynamic content is often compiled on the server utilizing server-side
scripting languages (PHP, ASP.net.etc). Both approaches are usually used in complex
applications. With growing specialization within communication design and information
technology fields , there is a strong tendency to draw a clear line between web
design specifically for web pages and web development for the overall logistics
of all web-based services.
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