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Difference Between Web Designing & Web Development

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Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design, interface design, authoring, including standardized code and proprietary software, user experience design and search engine optimization.

Web Development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a website for the internet. Web Development can range from developing the simplest static page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic business and social network services. A more comprehensive list of tasks to which web development commonly refers may include web engineering, web design, web content development, client liaison, client-side/server-side scripting, web server and network security configuration and e-commerce development.
Web development broadly refers to the main non-design aspects of building websites, writing markup and coding.

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@diannapettyJul 09.2018 — You have explained well, I've given my point of view on the difference between web design and web development.

Web design is the most common term used for professionals in this industry. Oftentimes, when someone says they are a "web designer," they are referring to a very broad set of skills, one of which is visual design.

The "design" part of this equation deals with the customer-facing or "front end" part of the website. A web designer is concerned with how a site looks and how the customers interact with it.

Good web designers know how to use the principles of design to create a site that looks great. They also understand about web usability and how to create sites that are user friendly . Their designs are one that customers want to navigate around because it’s so easy and intuitive to do so. Designers do much more than make a site "look pretty." They truly dictate the usability of a website's interface.

Web development comes in two flavors - front-end development and back-end development.Some of the skills in these two flavor overlap, but they do have very different purposes in the web design profession.

A front-end developer takes the visual design of a website (whether they created that design or it was handed to them by a visual designer) and builds it in code. A front-end developer will use HTML for the structure of the site, CSS to dictate the visual styles and layout, and perhaps even some Javascript. For some small sites, front-end development may be the only kind of development that is needed for that project. For more complex projects, "back-end" development will come into play.

Back-end development deals with the more advanced programming and interactions on web pages. A back-end web developer focuses on how a site works and how the customers get things done on it using certain functionality. This could include working with code that interfaces with a database or creating features like E-commerce shopping carts that connect to online payment processors and more.
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@efusionworldAug 03.2018 — Web Designers use various design programs such as Adobe Photoshop to create the layout and other visual elements of the website. Web Developers use HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and other programming languages to bring to life the design files.
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@unisecureusAug 03.2018 — Web Developer includes : ASP/.NET, PHP, Java Script, DHTML, Perl, SQL, MySQL, XML, XSL, AJAX, Coldfusion, C# , Java, HTML (X). Dreamweaver, CSS

Web Designer: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Fireworks, Typography, Color Theory, Web Accessibility and standard.
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