Custom Web Design

Web Design Overview

Web design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of text and media content delivery via Internet (or World wide Web, WWW) in the form of Markup language such as HTML suitable for interpretation by Web browsers (Such as Internet Explorer and Firefox) that's display as a GUI (Graphical User Interface).

Improvements in browser compliance with W3C standards prompted a widespread acceptance and usage of XHTML/XML in conjunction with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to position and manipulate web site page elements.

The intent of web design is to create a web site a collection of pages that reside on a web server/servers and present content and interactive features to the end user in form of Web pages. Such elements as text, bitmap images (GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs), forms can be placed on the page using HTML/XHTML/XML tags. Displaying more complex media (vector graphics, animations, videos, sounds) requires plug-ins such as Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc. (*)

Custom website design means that all graphic elements of your web site as well as its functionality, have been designed to meet your specific needs and requirements. There are two main types of websites: static web sites and dynamic web sites

Static web sites

Static web sites use the classical hypertext navigation. Usually they are written in HTML or xHTML. Once the static web site is created and uploaded, its owner needs some web design experience to update the website content and images. Therefore this technology is suitable for small web sites with no need to update the text content frequently.

See examples of static websites here

Dynamic web sites

Dynamic web sites are suitable for products and image galleries, online calendars, e-commerce applications and for all people who wish to make frequent changes to their websites including text and image updates. The key is that the content and design of dynamic sites live separately. The content lives in a database that is placed on a webpage only when needed or asked which allows anyone, with no web design experience, to update their own website via an administrative panel.

See examples of dynamic websites here

Search engine optimization

Having your new beautiful website ready and online does not mean that the job is finished. You might have the best web site in the world, but if people don't find it's pretty useless. People find the information they look for in the Internet by several ways, the most popular one is by using Search Engines like Google. As a web designer I design and programme websites with constantly search engines optimization rules in mind. Read more about search engine optimization.