Web Design

Web Design

Web Design is almost like an art. It is the design of information and services over the Internet. Luckily for businesses and customers the information and services provided are in done so through the World Wide Web (WWW). As I mentioned earlier Web design is a form of art, meaning that art and organization are needed to form customized Web pages to fit a particular business’ needs. Services for Web design can be accomplished in a variety of ways: professionally through a Web designer, created through hypertext mark-up language, JavaScript, Dreamweaver, and Microsoft FrontPage as well as other “What you see is what you get” {WYSIWYG) editors or languages.

Web sites have progressed to a new level of sophistication. They have a ability to track and store usage patterns and allow use for of this information in the development of advertisement and focus for both the Web page and their connected database (Mendelson, 98).There has been a development of dynamic Web sites because static Web pages were becoming, in a way, an older style. The new trends of Web design require more interactive and exciting ways to interest the user in the Web page. Web sites must also be able to provide companies with the most up-to-date information or data that is graphically appealing, yet will not leave any uncertainty or vague impressions on the consumers part. One way that companies have been working on making Web pages more interactive is enhancing methods that they already have created. For example, dynamic hypertext mark-up language (DHTML) was created for the use of dynamic sites, such as Java applets and ActiveX. These forms have been recognized as means of maintaining standard equality throughout the development proce...

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...r. Web design is a booming career field that pays well and is certain to attract young “hotshots” out of college with an artistic ability to design the Web. Maybe there will be programs developed that will surpass the use of databases connected to Web sites that are incorruptible, high-powered, and maintenance free. These are all very realistic possibilities that the future of Web design is very capable of bringing to this highly technological world of ours now and beyond.

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