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WEB DESIGN VS WEB DEVELOPMENT

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Websites are an important part of any business these days. Without websites, these days business is never taking growth. As this is a world of digitization and COVID19 has shattered traditional marketing. For designing websites, web developers are needed. Web developers are those who develop websites. Many people often confuse between web developers and web designers. The truth is both are the aspects of website building. In this blog, we will discuss web design vs web development.


So read on the full blog to know the difference between web design and web development


What is Web design?


Web design is the aspect of web building in which designers make the use of different design programs like Adobe Photoshop and different visual elements.


What is web development?


Web development is the task needed in developing a Web site for the Internet or an intranet. It includes making a simple single static page of plain text to multifaceted Web-based Internet,


What Web design involves actually?


Web designers must always initiate by seeing a client’s website objects and then move on to an Information Architecture (IA) to set a website’s info order and move towards the design process. After that the web designer creates a piece of design and moves to the next stage.

Web design manages the whole thing elaborate with the graphic usability and aesthetics of a website—information flow, layout, color scheme, and entirety associated with the graphic features of the  UX/UI.

Some mutual skills and tools that differentiate the web designing from web development are:

  • Adobe Creative Suite like Photoshop, Illustrator or other design software

  • Logo design

  • Graphic design

  • Branding

  • Layout/format

  • Wireframes, mock-ups, and storyboards

  • Placing call-to-action buttons

  • Typography

  • Color palettes

Web design is linked with what the user understands on their PC screen or mobile device, and less so about the devices underneath the apparent screen that make it all execute. The use of images, colors, layout, typography brings a digital experience to the existence of a website.


What Web Development involves?


The web development process involves programming so that’s why web developers are called programmers. Developers(programmers) take that design and split it up into its constituents. After that either they make the use of HTML or PHP for developing various website pages.

In some cases, the more progressive web developers may select to apply a Content Management System (CMS) like WordPress or Joomla to rationalize development and permit clients an easy way to uphold and appraise their website.

For converting a static website into a dynamic the web developers make the use of image and content sliders, links, active states and buttons, and various interactive tools.


Final Thoughts


Every business demands websites. From small scale to large scale business everyone is looking for a website or redesigning of the website. But they are much confused between web design and web development. The thing is the initial stage of website building is handled by the web designer and the last stages are handled by the web developer. We hope this article works for you. If still face any doubt, ask us freely in the comment section.



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