Have you ever wondered about the design and development of awesome and beautiful websites that you come across with, in your daily life ?

Do you have interest in making the logos and designs of such cool websites according to your imagination, skills and choices, according to your colors and fonts ? If yes, then you are perfect one for web design. And if you love to build and develop these websites by coding those design patterns, then web development is your domain.

Following are two aspects of website building :

• Web designing

• Web development

Web Designing

Web designing deals with the layout and designing part of websites. Web design consists of many ingredients for the recipe of any web application. It contains logos of any brand, making your personalized avatar, adding suitable fonts and beautiful colors to it and many more. It is the domain which is concerned with the layout of the application, how the website will look like, it is the front most part of the application which attracts the user to use the application. It contains all the animation and visualization which will be displayed on the screen when anyone visits the website.

Web design is the foremost part of any website because it creates a direct impact on users. It is something which users will see directly while using the website.

Web design mainly includes two most important domains :

• UI (User Interface)

• UX (User Experience)

UI (User Interface)

User interface is the wholesome domain of designing the interface of application or any software. It is the layout, graphics, animations and visualizations which is shown on the website. It consists of every small item which is displayed like buttons, hyperlinks, images, tabs, logos, colors, fonts, text, text-alignment, shapes, icons, and many more which the user interacts with. It also includes the graphics and the work of the UI designer is to make sure that the application should look attractive and beautiful.

UX (User Experience)

UX or User Experience is another specialization of web design which tells the experience of the user while interacting with the websites or any application. It determines how the user will interact with the application. It tells the user whether it is easy to use the application, whether it is user friendly to interact with the application or does it feel like boring to use it. So these types of experiences with the application make UX designers think about the interaction of users with the website.

UI designers decide how the interface will look like whereas UX designers decide how the same interface will operate.

Web Development

Web development puts life to the website. It is more of the technical aspect of website building. It focuses more on the coding part of website building. It is the coding of every component of a website and giving life to it to operate. It is done by scripting and markup languages like HTML, CSS, Javascript, php, django, node js, react js, vue js, angular js, express js, perl, ruby etc. which helps in building front end which is visible to user while interacting with the website and back end which is not shown but responsible for each and every activity performed on the website.

Following are the two categories of web development, just like UI and UX are the two specializations of web design :

• Front end
• Back end

Front End Web Development

Front end refers to the user interface which the users will see on their device screens, and front end development is the developing the user interface for the website of whose design is given by the UI designer. After receiving the website design from UI designer, now the front end developer will code that design and make sure that it should look the same way as given by UI designer. Front end development is the building and developing of the client-side by using markup and scripting languages like HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Back End Web Development

Backend development simply means developing the server side of a website. It includes the logical design of any application, how it works. It refers to the development of a web application from behind the screen of the device, back end refers to the server side development. Server means the entity which provides data on request. Nowadays, many programming languages are present for backend web development i.e., java, ruby on rails, c#, python, javascript.

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