Website design is the process of architecture, design, and execution of media content in HTML – Hypertext Markup Language. In addition to HTML and XHTML there are also style specific objects referred to as CSS – Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is used to position and manipulate web page elements  and can be integrated separate from the HTML.

The purpose of web design is to develop a web site . Elements such as text, images, video and interactive forms can be served on a page using markup tags and   a plug-ins such as QuickTime, Flash, Java run-time, etc. There are also programming languages such as JavaScript (JS) which allow different data manipulation based on user input.

JS allows variables and  page elements to change dynamically within the users browser (FireFox,Internet Explorer, etc). These operations and calculations happen client-side (eg in the users browser) and not on the web server before the page is delivered. For server side operations using programming languages such as PHP. Web 2.0 describes web pages that use a combination of these client side and server side programming languages to update content in the user interface, usually without refreshing the page.

This is most commonly delivered using AJAX (Asynchornous JavaScript and XML) where the JavaScript will take a user action and send that data to the server for processing via XML, then receive a response from the server and use JavaScript again to update the user interface (web page). With the rapid propagation of the World Wide Web, tens of thousands of web design companies have been established worldwide to serve the business community. See W3C standards for more specific information on the accepted standards and best practices.

Article by Web Designers Los Angeles