Web design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser. Web designers utilize markup language, most notably HTML for structure and CSS for presentation as well as JavaScript to add interactivity to develop pages that can be read by web browsers.

As a whole, the process of web design can include conceptualization, planning, producing, post-production, research, advertising. The site itself can be divided up into pages. The site is navigated by using hyperlinks.

HTML/XHTML

HTML and XHTML are mark up languages.

XHTML stands for Extensible Hyper Text Mark Up Language while HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark Up Language.

XHTML needs to be properly nested, properly closed, tag names and attributes in lower case and it must have one root element.

XHTML is HTML 4.01 redesigned as XML.

XHTML is currently the most widely used standard for websites. It supports browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and mobile devices.

CHANGES AND UPDATES

Initial website designs normally need small tweaks and changes after they go live, but major updates and re-designs may be undertaken periodically.