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What is a Web Designer?
Web page design requires conceptualizing, planning, modeling, and
executing electronic media content and its delivery via the Internet
using technologies (such as markup languages) suitable for rendering
and presentation by web browsers or other web-based graphical user
interfaces (GUIs).
The intent of web design is to create a web site (a collection of
electronic files residing on one or more web servers) that presents
content (including interactive features or interfaces) to the end
user in the form of web pages upon request. Such elements as text,
forms, and bit-mapped images (GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs) can be placed on
the page using HTML, XHTML, or XML tags. Displaying more complex
media (vector graphics, animations, videos, sounds) usually requires
browsers to incorporate optional plug-ins, such as Flash, QuickTime,
and Java run-time environment. Other plug-ins are embedded in web
pages, using HTML or XHTML tags.
Improvements in the various browsers' compliance with W3C standards
prompted a widespread acceptance of XHTML and XML in conjunction
with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to position and manipulate web
page elements. The latest standards and proposals aim at leading to
the various browsers' ability to deliver a wide variety of media and
accessibility options to the client possibly without employing
plug-ins.
Typically web pages are classified as static or dynamic.
Static pages don’t change content and layout with every request
unless a human (web master or programmer) manually updates the page.
Dynamic pages adapt their content and/or appearance depending on the
end-user’s input or interaction or changes in the computing
environment (user, time, database modifications, etc.) Content can
be changed on the client side (end-user's computer) by using
client-side scripting languages (JavaScript, JScript, Actionscript,
media players and PDF reader plug-ins, etc.) to alter DOM elements (DHTML).
Dynamic content is often compiled on the server utilizing
server-side scripting languages (PHP, ASP, Perl, Coldfusion, JSP,
Python, etc.). Both approaches are usually used in complex
applications.
With growing specialization within communication design and
information technology fields, there is a strong tendency to draw a
clear line between web design specifically for web pages and web
development for the overall logistics of all web-based services.
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