Website Design

Websitesite design

Website design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of Websitesites. The different areas of Website design include Website graphic design; interface design; authoring, including standardised code and proprietary software; user experience design; and search engine optimization. Often many individuals will work in teams covering different aspects of the design process, although some designers will cover them all. The term "Website design" is normally used to describe the design process relating to the front-end (client side) design of a Websitesite including writing markup. Website design partially overlaps Website engineering in the broader scope of Website development. Website designers are expected to have an awareness of usability and if their role involves creating markup then they are also expected to be up to date with Website accessibility guidelines.

Skills and techniques:

    Marketing and Communication Design

    Marketing and communication design on a website may identify what works for its target market. This can be an age group or particular strand of culture; thus the designer may understand the trends of its audience.

    User Experience Design and Interactive Design

    User understanding of the content of a website often depends on user understanding of how the website works. This is part of the user experience design. User experience is related to layout, clear instructions and labeling on a website. How well a user understands how they can interact on a site may also depend on the interactive design of the site.

    Page Layout

    Part of the user interface design is affected by the quality of the page layout. For example, a designer may consider whether the site's page layout should remain consistent on different pages when designing the layout. Page pixel width may also be considered vital for aligning objects in the layout design.

    Occupations

    Further jobs which may become involved in the creation of a website include:

    • Graphic designers to create visuals for the site such as logos, layouts and buttons
    • Internet marketing specialists to help maintain web presence through strategic solutions on targeting viewers to the site, by using marketing and promotional techniques on the internet
    • SEO writers to research and recommend the correct words to be incorporated into a particular website and make the website more accessible and found on numerous search engines
    • Internet copywriter to create the written content of the page to appeal to the targeted viewers of the site
    • User experience (UX) designer incorporates aspects of user-focused design considerations which include information architecture, user-centered design, user testing, interaction design, and occasionally visual design.