Website Designing
Web design is the skill of creating presentations of content (usually hypertext or hypermedia) that is delivered to an end-user. Get your Website designed from such a professional web design company having offices both in UAE & India
Improvements in browsers' compliance with W3C standards prompted a widespread acceptance and usage of XHTML / XMLin conjunction with Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) to position and manipulate web page elements and objects. Latest standards and proposals aim at leading to 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/programmer) manually updates the page. A simple HTML page is an example of static content.
- Dynamic pages adapt their content and/or appearance depending on end-user's input/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, etc.) to alter DOM elements (DHTML). Dynamic content is often compiled on the server utilizing server-side scripting languages (Perl, PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, etc.). Both approaches are usually used in complex applications.
- With growing specialization in the information technology field there is a strong tendency to draw a clear line between web design and web development.
- Web design is a kind 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 offered definition separates web design from web programming, emphasizing the functional features of a web site, as well as positioning web design as a kind of graphic design
- Use a valid markup language that conforms to a published DTD or Schema
- Provide text equivalents for any non-text components (e.g. images, multimedia)
- Use hyperlinks that make sense when read out of context. (e.g. avoid "Click Here")
- Don't use frames
- Use CSS rather than HTML tables for layout
- Author the page so that when the source code is read line-by-line by user agents (such as a screen readers) it remains intelligible. (Using tables for design will often result in information that is not
However, W3C permits an exception where tables for layout either make sense when linearized or an alternate version (perhaps linearized) is made available.
Website accessibility is also changing as it is impacted by Content Management Systems that allow changes to be made to webpages without the need of obtaining programming language knowledge