What Are Web Designing and Web Development?

In web business, many times you will face clients approaching you and asking you to design their websites. But when they tell you their requirement, you will come to know that it’s not just designing work, it also includes development work. Most of people think that the terms  web   designing  and web development are same. But the fact is that these two phrases have different meaning. Now here I will show these two terms vary from each other.

 Web   Design 

Let’s get started with the  web   designing  first. Now basically it is website designing, it is creating a web page which includes colors and graphics. In simple words, it can be called making a sketch by using colors. It’s just what we do paper, but here we are doing it on computers.  Web   Designing  is related to look and feel of the website or graphical representation of the web page.

The person who does the designing part of the website is called web designer. He is the one who creates the visual appearance of the website. It is designed according to the needs of the customer and his business. Different colors, images and graphics are used to make the website appealing. Adobe Photoshop is the widespread framework which is used by designers to make the web page. In order to display the design over the internet, HTML (HyperText Markup Language) of the design is done. When it’s just the design with HTML, these sites are static websites.

Web Development

Now, let’s move on to web development. It is creating the functionality of web pages or constructing the back-end of the website, which is done through programming. Interaction between different pages, working of website is the web development part.

There are different languages used to develop the website like PHP, ASP and ASP.NET. Some scripting languages are also used like JavaScript. Database design and development is also included in web development. Database is the place where data from website is stored and from where the data comes on the website. These websites are called dynamic websites or database driven websites. The back-end or administrator side of the website is not viewed by the users. The owner or administrator of the website can view by logging in with user name and password. The person who does work is called Web Developer or Web Programmer. He only takes cares, how the website is going to function when user open it.