Web Design & Web Developement

Today, entire countries are controled by web. Now, every business is organised all over with the use of web technologies. Today’s world is digital and in this digital world, the online existence onto the web is imperative for every buisness and the organization for advertising, promotion and selling their products and services to their international user. However, there is a question “How it will be done” and how a buisness can do online marketing can hit a immense role in the longterm business of an organization. Furthermore, the answer to the above question is having an online existense; by including a efficient website that represents the company’s overall profile and business.

While the terms “web developer” and “web designer” are often used synonymously, they do not mean the same thing. Technically, a web designer only designs website interfaces using HTML and CSS. A web developer may be involved in designing a website, but may also write web scripts in languages such as PHP.

Fig. 1 Fig. 1 Web design and web developement.

Most of people is always confused about these two terms i.e.

1. What is Web design? and
2. What is Web development?

Let’s talk about these two terms:
Web Design: Web design is the process of creating websites. It includes several different aspects, consist of webpage layout, sketches, and graphic design. Websites are created by using a markup language named as HTML. Web designers build webpages using HTML tags that define the content of each page. The layout and appearance of the elements within a webpage are defined using CSS, or also known as Cascading Style Sheets. Therefore, most websites include a combination of HTML and CSS that defines how each page will appear in a browser.
While HTML and CSS are used to design the look and feel of a website. Some graphics programs like Adobe Photoshop even include a “Save for Web…” option that provides an easy way to export images in a format optimized for web publishing.

Fig. 2 Web Design and layout of homepage

Front end developer: The front end developer generally works at client side dealing with the web page design, graphics that is accessible to the user.
Back end developer: The back end developer is a person who is responsible for the back end development that interacts with the server. This type of web developer specializes in the languages like Php,  ASP.Net, Java.

Fig. 3 Sketches of web page
Scope: There are huge opportunities available for students who want to work in this field. Many private and public organizations hires web designer for their online work.With the rapid advent of online industry, the demand of web designer professionals is increasing and this has created a huge job opportunities for the aspirants in the upcoming days. Also an experienced person in this field can also work as a freelancer; there are many online companies which provide online projects to the individuals.

Fig. 4 Jobs Scenario for Web designer and Web developer

Here’s a valuable short talk about The Internet of Things By Dr. John Barrett:

Web Development: Web development refers to building, creating, and an maintaining websites. It includes aspects such as web design, web publishing, web programming, and database management. Additionally, a web developer may help maintain and update a database used by a dynamic website. Web development includes many types of web content creation. Some examples include hand coding web pages in a text editor, building a website in a program like Dreamweaver. In recent years, content management systems like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla have also become popular means of web development. These tools make it easy for anyone to create and edit their own website using a web-based interface.

Fig. 5. Web development and its components.
Reference:

Talks, T. (Director). (Oct 5, 2012). The Internet of Things: Dr. John Barrett at TEDxCIT [Motion Picture]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaTIt1C5R-M