Active vocabulary. Web design is the design of web pages, websites and web applications and other media

Web design is the design of web pages, websites and web applications and other media. Web design is in contrast with web development, which includes web server configuration, writing web applications and server security. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, published a website in August 1991, making him also the first web designer. His first was to use hypertext with an existing email link. This was new and different to existing forms of communication - users could easily open other pages using browsers. As the Web and web design progressed, the markup language used to make it. Features like tables, which could be used to display tabular information, were soon subverted for use as invisible layout devices.

With the advent of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), table based layout is increasingly regarded as outdated. The introduction of Macromedia Flash (now Adobe Flash) into an already interactivity-ready scene has further changed the face of the Web, giving new power to designers and media creators, and offering new interactivity features to users. A website is a collection of information about a particular topic or subject. Designing a website is defined as the arrangement and creation of web pages that in turn make up a website. A web page consists of information for which the website is developed. For example, a website might be compared to a book, where each page of the book is a web page. A website typically consists of text and images. The first page of a website is known as the Home page or Index. Some websites use what is commonly called a Splash Page.

Splash pages might include a welcome message, language/region selection, or disclaimer. After each web page is created, they are typically linked together using a navigation menu composed of hyperlinks. Once a website is completed, it must be published or uploaded in order to be viewable to the public over the Internet. Once published, the webmaster may use a variety of techniques to increase the traffic, or hits, that the website receives. This may include submitting the website to a search engine such as Google or Yahoo, exchanging links with other websites, creating affiliations with similar websites, etc. A relatively new technique for creating websites called Remote Scripting has allowed more dynamic use of the web without the use of Flash or other specialized plug-ins.