Layouts 'Web design' is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling,
and execution of electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form of
technologies (such as markup languages) suitable for interpretation and display
by a web browser or other web-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs). The intent of web design is to create a web site (a collection of electronic
files residing on one or more web servers) that presents content (including
interactive features or interfaces) to the end user in the form of web pages
once requested. Such elements as text, forms, and bit-mapped images (GIFs,
JPEGs, PNGs) can be placed on the page using HTML, XHTML, or XML tags.
Displaying more complex media (vector graphics, animations, videos, sounds)
usually requires plug-ins such as Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment,
etc. Plug-ins are also embedded into web pages by using HTML or XHTML tags. Improvements in the various browsers' compliance with W3C standards prompted a
widespread acceptance of XHTML and XML in conjunction with Cascading Style
Sheets (CSS) to position and manipulate web page elements. The latest standards
and proposals aim at leading to the various browsers' ability to deliver a wide
variety of media and accessibility options to the client possibly without
employing plug-ins. Typically web pages are classified as static or dynamic. *Static web page|Static pages don’t change content and layout with every
request unless a human (web master or programmer) manually updates the page. *Dynamic web page|Dynamic pages adapt their content and/or appearance
depending on the end-user’s input or 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, media players and PDF reader plug-ins, etc.)
to alter DOM elements (DHTML). Dynamic content is often compiled on the server
utilizing server-side scripting languages (PHP, ASP, Perl, Coldfusion, JSP,
Python, etc.). Both approaches are usually used in complex applications. 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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