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The Basics of Web Design

June 11, 2012 4:00PM

Web design is a broad term covering many different skills and disciplines that are used in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include; web 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 web design is normally used to describe the design process relating to the front-end (client side) design of a website including writing mark up, but this is a grey area as this is also covered by web development. Web designers are expected to have an awareness of usability and if their role involves creating mark up then they are also expected to be up to date with web accessibility guidelines.

Skills and techniques

Typography

Usually a successful website has only a few typefaces which are of a similar style, instead of using a range of typefaces. Preferably a website should use sans serif or serif typefaces, not a combination of the two. Typography in websites should also be careful the amount of typefaces used, good design will incorporate a few similar typefaces rather than a range of type faces. Most browsers recognize a specific number of safe fonts, which designers mainly use in order to avoid complications.

Quality of code

When creating a site it is good practice to conform to standards. This includes errors in code, better layout for code as well as making sure your IDs and classes are identified properly. This is usually done via a description specifying what the element is doing.

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COC-PHINMA (formerly Cagayan de Oro College) is a private, non-sectarian institution of basic and higher learning founded by a group of civic-minded professionals in 1947. It was re-established in 2005 by Phinma Education Network (PEN), a member of the Phinma Group of Companies, upon its acquisition of the school. In the spirit of service, Phinma Education Network aims to break down the financial barriers to accessing the highest standards in education to enable more Filipino families to send their children through college.