[Sponsored Post] Web Design Vs. Web Development

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In order to understand the difference between web design and web development, it is important to know the definition of Web Design and Web Development. Web Design includes different skills required for the production, support, and maintenance of a website. These skills include website layout, content production, and graphic design.

Web Design and Web Development, also known as Web Programming, are usually used interchangeably. Web Development refers to developing the website to be hosted on the internet. Web Development has two main divisions; front-end development and back-end development. This is the best form of coding for beginners to learn. Coding can also be learned by studying software engineering after writing the JEE main.

What is Web Design?

Web design is a part of web development. The term web design is usually referred to the design of the front-end of a website including the coding. This is one of the most important parts of a website. And it is a field that is ever growing and changing. The web design trends from five years ago can be obsolete today. Websites now promise to provide a responsive interface with new developing software which required plugins a few years ago. The important thing to keep in mind while designing a website is the user experience, this usually requires a design which doesn’t take users a long time to familiarize with the website’s layout and content. This will reduce the bounce rate of the webpage and website which is key for all websites as bounce rate affects the traffic of the website. For example, a website for NEET should have easy access to the application, admit card, results, FAQs etc. Students will be tempted to leave the website if it is not easy to use. For instance, all the call to action buttons like home, contact us, FAQs, etc. need to be on the top of the page which is easily accessible to the user.

What is Web Development?

Web Development is the programming and coding of the website. It is inclusive of the non-design of the website like coding and writing markup. It also includes complex web-based applications social network applications and electronic business applications. It refers to web design, web publishing, web programming and database management. A web developer can involve in the web designing process. They usually use web script languages like PHP and ASP. Developers are also involved in the maintenance and database management of a dynamic website. It also includes coding web pages in a text editor, building websites like Dreamweaver and updating blog. There a lot of new web development programs in the market now like WordPress Drupal Joomla. These tools make it easy for anybody to create and customize their website using a web-based interface.

Even though these tools are highly popular, most businesses have a web development team which work on the code and database of the website which is more efficient when there is a financial backing to have web development team. However, Small businesses reserve to using tools like WordPress as it is usually designed by the owner of the business which works as WordPress is easy to use and customizable.

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