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What is Web Design & Website Design?
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Designing a website can be a complicated process with a number of procedures. For typical commercial web sites, the basic aspects of design are:
1. The content:
The information on the site should be relevant to the site and should target the area of the public that the website is concerned with.
2. The usability:
The site should be user-friendly, with the interface and navigation simple and reliable.
3. The appearance:
The graphics and text should include a single style that flows throughout, to show consistency. The style should be professional, appealing and relevant.
4. The visibility:
The site must also be easy to find via most, if not all, major search engines and advertisement media.
A web site typically consists of text, images and other multimedia elements. The first page of a web site is known as the Home page or Index. Each web page within a web site is an HTML file which has its own URL. After each web page is created, they are typically linked together using a navigation menu composed of hyperlinks. And for the ease of browsing, some of the websites may have a breadcrumb in each of the page. A breadcrumb is an index that points to current category and its mother categories.
Once a web site is completed, it must be published or uploaded in order to be viewable to the public over the internet. This may be done using an FTP client. Once published, the web master may use a variety of techniques to increase the traffic, or hits, that the web site receives. This may include submitting the web site to a search engine such as Google or Yahoo, exchanging links with other web sites, creating affiliations with similar web sites, etc.
Frontend/Backend
The components of a website can be classified as frontend or backend. The observable content (e.g. page layout, user interface, graphics, text, audio) is known as the front-end. The back-end comprises the organization and efficiency of the source code, invisible scripted functions, the server-side components that process the output from the front-end, the Content Management System or the administrator areas.
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