In the age of Internet especially web design and development when every day a new technology is popping up on the screen and making you confuse to decide which one is best or to go with what specific platform, is really a tough job. Both design and development are distinct fields. With broader diversifications it’s really hard to define web design as it’s not about designing for web browsers but designing for user experiences. Before we move further let us define the term Web Design.
1.What is Web Design?
Web design composes of front end technology that is the visible part to users. Web design is a wide term that composes of various elements that lead to creation and display of final end product in the form of content embedded in graphics to end user over the internet, using a display medium mostly web browser.
2.Types of Web Designers
Before you jump in the field of web design you should ask you’re self do you really want to become a web designer? As there are lots of individual who are full time professional and just do web designing as hobbyist. But there is a large difference in being a hobbyist web designer and a professional web designer, as it’s really hard to learn the ins and outs off web design, a firm commitment is needed towards the profession.
3.Areas of Web Design
To move ahead with areas of Web Design let us first take a look at site design as most people think of site design when they think of web design, since it deals with actual look of website. Learning to design effectively for web is similar to learning, how to design for print media. While creating web design it’s really important to create a striking balance between visual design and other thighs like site loading time, re-loading time and user experience. Web is constantly changing and the standards are also changing to make an adaptability to fulfill the demands of modern web. You must always keep in back of mind that you are not creating visual but you are creating user interfaces that should satisfy the need of both clients and users. Web is a big environment and often it seem that you need to be expert in million things, that the most confusing situation. Well for this you have to take a look at your strengths and weakness to decide for your self which area of design you want to move further with it may be visual design, interactive design or it can be information architecture design.
Well the back bone of any web design CSS and HTML any level of web design. There are plenty of things like Flash, Java Scrip, J Query and AJAX as you move further in you career. It’s up to you how you use them.