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}} Layouts , Adobe Flash, and ActionScript Layouts 'Web design' is the skill
of creating presentations of content (usually hypertext or hypermedia) that is
delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or
other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients, microblogging
clients and RSS readers. The intent of Web design is to create a website—a collection of electronic
documents and applications that reside on a Web server/servers and present
content and interactive features/interfaces to the end user in form of Web pages
once requested. Such elements as text, bit-mapped images (GIFs, JPEGs) and forms
can be placed on the page using HTML/XHTML/XML tags. Displaying more complex
media (vector graphics, animations, videos, sounds) requires plug-ins such as
Adobe Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc. Plug-ins are also
embedded into web page by using HTML/XHTML tags. Improvements in browsers' compliance with W3C standards prompted a widespread
acceptance and usage of XHTML/XML in conjunction with Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) to position and manipulate web page elements and objects. Latest standards
and proposals aim at leading to browsers' ability to deliver a wide variety of
content and accessibility options to the client possibly without employing plug-
ins. Typically Web pages are classified as static or dynamic: *Static pages don’t
change content and layout with every request unless a human (web
master/programmer) manually updates the page. A simple HTML page is an example
of static content. *Dynamic pages adapt their content and/or appearance
depending on end-user’s input/interaction or changes in the computing
environment (user, time, database modifications, etc.) Content can be changed on
the client side (end-user's computer) by using client-side scripting languages
(JavaScript, JScript, Actionscript, etc.) to alter DOM elements (DHTML). Dynamic
content is often compiled on the server utilizing server-side scripting
languages (Perl, PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, etc.). Both approaches are usually
used in complex applications. With growing specialization in the information technology field there is a
strong tendency to draw a clear line between web design and Web development. Web design is a kind of graphic design intended for development and styling of
objects of the Internet's information environment to provide them with high-end
consumer features and aesthetic qualities. The offered definition separates Web
design from web programming, emphasizing the functional features of a web site,
as well as positioning web design as a kind of graphic design.[Denis
Borodayev. Web site as a Graphic Design Object. Monograph. (Бородаев
Д.В. Веб-сайт как объект графического
дизайна. Монография. - Х.: Септима ЛТД, 2006. - 288
с. - Библиогр.: с.262-286. ISBN 966-674-026-5] The process of designing web pages, web sites, web applications or multimedia
for the Web may utilize multiple disciplines, such as animation, authoring,
communication design, corporate identity, graphic design, human-computer
interaction, information architecture, interaction design, marketing,
photography, search engine optimization and typography. * Markup languages (such as HTML, XHTML and XML)
* Style sheet languages (such as CSS and XSL)
* Client-side scripting (such as JavaScript)
* Server-side scripting (such as PHP and ASP)
* Database technologies (such as MySQL and PostgreSQL)
* Multimedia technologies (such as Flash and Silverlight) Web pages and websites can be static pages, or can be programmed to be dynamic
pages that automatically adapt content or visual appearance depending on a
variety of factors, such as input from the end-user, input from the Webmaster or
changes in the computing environment (such as the site's associated database
having been modified). With growing specialization within communication design and information
technology fields, there is a strong tendency to draw a clear line between Web
design specifically for web pages and Web development for the overall
logistics of all web-based services.
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