| Website design is an intricate part of the Internet as | | | | change form until manually manipulated, which means |
| it is what constructs its body. From the early days | | | | that they have to be tended to constantly for |
| when people barely understand it to the present | | | | updates. The latter, however, change form and |
| when HTML and other languages are being taught to | | | | content according to input and interaction, as well as |
| people as young as grade school students. While web | | | | changes in environment; including that of the user, |
| technology is still evolving as we speak, the | | | | time, changes in database, and so on. This means |
| foundations of website design and its undeniable | | | | that they adapt to input on the client side, bringing in |
| importance will never be extinguished. | | | | a more user-oriented development of a website. |
| Basically, website design is the all-important process | | | | They involve the use of client-side scripting languages |
| of conceptualizing, planning, modeling, and creating | | | | like JavaScript, Jscript, Actionscript, and so on. They |
| what is known as the main delivery vessel of media | | | | usually can be seen in forms of server-side scripting |
| content via the Internet, which takes form due to | | | | languages like PHP, ASP, JSP, Python, and so on. |
| the use of markup languages and other technologies. | | | | They can be seen all over the Internet with different |
| The resulting product is then made suitable for | | | | functionalities according to purpose. |
| conversion and display by a web browser or any | | | | It all started with the advent of the mainstream |
| other such software. | | | | Internet brought on by the pioneer Tim Berners-Lee, |
| The delivery of content with website design involves | | | | who published what was to be known as a website |
| many different implementations like markup languages | | | | on August 1991. He was the first person to combine |
| (HTML, XHTML, XML), plug-ins (Flash, QuickTime | | | | what was then the main function of the Internet, |
| Java), and so on. These are used to encode and lay | | | | which was communication (email, Usenet, BBS), along |
| out different forms of media like text, images, | | | | with hypertext. The latter had been used for quite |
| videos, Flash, and others into a comprehensible | | | | some time, but was limited to browsing information |
| medium for viewing. The web pages that we browse | | | | within a single computer. This was the start of the |
| through everyday are all results of website design. | | | | Hypertext Transfer Markup Language, or HTML, |
| The recent improvements on website design include | | | | which would then revolutionize how information was |
| those of web browsers' compliance with W3C | | | | distributed, giving birth to what came to be known |
| standards, which spurred on the use of XHTML and | | | | as the information superhighway and ushering in what |
| XML in correlation to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), | | | | is now known as the Internet Age. |
| which has revolutionized the customization of web | | | | Nowadays, website design has become a crucial part |
| layouts. This and many other improvements have | | | | of any dedicated computer user's skill set. As the |
| made website design accessible to web users. | | | | Internet continues evolving, so will the different |
| Nowadays, anyone can be a webmaster with the | | | | methods implemented into the creation of web |
| right tools and the proper knowledge. | | | | pages, continually shifting the way information is |
| There are two types of pages produced by website | | | | distributed throughout the world. |
| design: static and dynamic pages. The former don't | | | | |