What is Website Designing and Development?

Website designing and development are two different things that come together to achieve the purpose of building a website online.  

In earlier times, there was a different type of ecosystem to create websites. Nowadays, there are different web development and designing tools and software that make the process easier and save a lot of time but it doesn’t mean there are no complexities to create a large-scale website.

What is Website Designing?

Website designing is all about the overall structure, style, look and feel of the website. A website designer is fully responsible for creating mock-up designs and making the website look more attractive and visually appealing.

Actually, Web designing is the front face of the website, whatever the user sees in the front on their screen is part of web designing.

A web designer uses different types of tools and software like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Figma, Elementor, MockFlow etc. 

They wireframe designs and prototypes and also build different web pages (home, about, service, product, blog, contact-us, landing etc pages) along with this work with front-end and back-end developers.

Web designers require different skill sets such as graphic designing, UI design, UX design, and Logo designing. They should be aware of current industry trends to guide clients and also understand their requirements and expectations.

To create an appealing web design you just need a creative mind, required skills, and familiarity with tools and software no rocket science is required.

What are the types and roles of Website designers?

User Experience (UX) Designer: A UI designer is liable to make the user interactivity on the website application seamless and efficient.

User Interface (UI): The UI designer is responsible for making the look and feel of the website extraordinary with a creative mind and elements.

Graphic Designer: A graphic designer is the first person to understand your brand and online identity. They create brand identity, brand kit, logos, needed graphics, icons, images etc.

What is Web Development?

When a website designer has designed the website, the next step is web development to give it functionality, which is the job of the web developer. Programming a website design to make it functional is known as web development. And the person who does this process is known as a web developer or programmer.

Development is the back-end work of your website which users can’t see. Their main responsibility is to make the website well-functioning, have smooth interactions, manage and store data, and provide support and maintenance.

A website developer uses different programming languages like HTML, CSS, javascript, jQuery, Node.js, PHP, ASP.Net Python etc.

What are the types and roles of Website developers?

Front-end developer: Front end means the part of your web application with users who can interact by clicking buttons, filling forms, sending messages etc. It is also known as the client side. Front-end developers use the languages like HTML, CSS and Javascript.

The two main objectives are making the website responsive so that it perfectly shows every screen size and the other one is a performance that should also be seamless. They code clear website structure, behaviour and content.

Back-end Developer: The back end is also server-side development. They store and maintain the data of the users. Users can not see whatever back-end web developers do behind bar but they can indirectly access them by interacting with the elements through the front-end applications. In the back-end developers write APIs, create libraries, etc.

Full stack developers: These developers know about front-end development and back-end development.

Difference between Web designing and Web development

Website Designing	Website Development
The creative part of the website. Make the website responsive.	Technical part of the website. Make the website user-friendly.
The main focus is the visually appealing website.	The main focus is a fully functional website.
Web designing provides an extraordinary look and feel to the website.	Web development provides functionality to the website.
Designers are quite less expensive.	Developers are expensive.
For web designing, Figma, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver tools are required.	For development, Knowledge of HTML, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Python, Ruby, jQuery etc and also knowledge about CMS like WordPress, Joomla, drupal etc required.

 

In Conclusion

Excellent website designing and development are required to build an impressive website. We have discussed the meaning, types, roles and differences between both. To stay more updated on the website development design visit our blog pages.